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.

Fill in the Blanks

Mrs. Stanley is making PB&J sandwiches for the class. Each sandwich is made of 2 bread, 1 serving PB and 1 serving jelly.

How many sandwiches can she make with 100 pieces of bread, 10 servings of PB, and 12 servings of jelly? No math required. Enter just the number of your answer in the space provided.

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