Balancing Recipes (& Chemical Equations)

Balancing Recipes (& Chemical Equations)

​How Chemical Reactions are like Cooking

​Reactants (things we are reacting) = "ingredients" of the recipe

​Reaction = baking in oven or boiling in pot

​Products (thinks we are producing) = "meal" that we have cooked

Multiple Choice

The reactants of a chemical reaction are like...

• products

• ingredients

• cake

• fire

Multiple Choice

The products of a chemical reaction are like...

• food you made from a recipe

• things you use to build things at a factory

• fire

• reactants

Example: Make a burger.​

​A burger meal requires 2 pieces of bread and 1 burger.

​You have 16 pieces of bread and 6 burgers. How many burger meals can you make?

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​With 16 bread, you can make up to 8 burger meals. But, you only have 6 burgers, which means you can only make 6 burger meals. Therefore, you only make 6 burger meals.

Multiple Choice

This word describes the "ingredient" that limits how much of a "meal" that can be made from a "recipe."

• limited reaction

• limiting product

• limiting reactant

• excess reactant

Multiple Choice

This term describes what is left over of the "ingredients" after a "meal" has been prepared.

• limited reaction

• limiting product

• limiting reactant

• excess reactant

Poll

Choose what we as a class do for the rest of class.

• Watch Osmosis Jones & complete movie guide for extra credit (required).

• Extra Credit Activity (required) then Blooket or other trivia

• Extra Credit Activity (required) then board games