What’s the matter?

Hello! Welcome to another reflection blog post of a project. This projects driving question was, how can the behaviour of matters be explained by the kinetic molecular theory? To answer this question we had to make a game or simulation to show this but first we started by making a MindNode about what we know, what questions we have, and what we wanted in the product of this project. 

To actually make the game/simulator we learned how to use Scratch, which is website that uses block based visual programming as an educational tool for coding. I chose to make a simulator, so that means that what I made had to be interactive for the player, it had to show how the particles move in different environments like the particles being cold, hot or in different states of matter, and these all had to be explainable by the kinetic molecular theory. In my simulation I added three different elements, water molecules, helium molecules and chlorine atoms. 

  

There were some problems with sharing my simulation so I can’t give a link to it but a can show you photos of the front of the simulation and all the coding behind it.

See you next time.