This project was all about ionic and covalent bonding in atoms, the goal was to make an animation showing the steps of the bonding process. Some of the building knowledge aspects of this project included:
- Work books/textbooks that explain many of the important elements that go into making the bonding form
- And a project start mind map that included questions and a few things that we already knew about the subject
- And the task of gaining the knowledge to choose both an ionic compound and a covalent compound
I learned that the biggest differences between ionic and covalent bonding were that an ionic compound is formed between two non metals and a covalent compound is formed between one non metal and a metal. I used this information in order to identify one of each compound that I would go on to put into my animation.
The compounds that I chose were:
- Potassium nitride (K3N0) which is made of one nitrogen and three potassium, this was my ionic compound
- For my covalent compound I chose to use Phosphorus trichloride (PCl3) which is made up of one phosphorus and three chlorine
After I had chosen my compounds I made a storyboard, which was basically a non animated rough draft of the animation I would eventually make. In order to represent the compounds in my story, I drew Bohr models of each one that I could then put into my story with speech bubbles to represent that they could communicate.
The actual animation took up most of the time and was the most difficult part. It consisted of a lot of magic move in keynote and making sure everything lined up. After the animation was done I simply made my voice overs and put it all together in iMovie.
I’m happy with how it turned out and am proud of the animation and what I learned from this project.