The goal of this activity was to familiarize ourselves with naming compounds by matching chemical formulas with their nominal equivalents to make a square puzzle. Today we learned how to properly name a compound, given its chemical formula, and this activity helped us exercise this new skill!
Here's my group's completed puzzle:
The biggest difficulty Grace, Reshma, and I had was keeping track of the puzzle pieces while flipping through all our pages on the periodic table, ionic compounds, polyatomic ions, and the nomenclature flowchart. We first separated the pieces into piles, depending on if they contained a certain element, such as potassium, iron, and barium. Next, we each took a pile and started putting pieces together. My pile was potassium, and although it took some time to look up names and formulas, I eventually figured it out. I feel that this was my greatest contribution to the group effort. Finally, we put our pieces together, looking for matches, sides, and corners. It required a great amount of focus and diligence, and we did not win the race, but we took our time and finished strong!
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