MET-Organic: A Multilevel Card Game to Promote the Learning of Organic Chemistry Nomenclature
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Héctor García-Ortega [1] ; Chloé Lhardy [2] ; Jesús Gracia-Mora [1] ; Armando Marín-Becerra [1] ; Miguel Reina [1] ; Antonio Reina [1]
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[1] Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
México
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[2] Lycée Franco-Mexicain, Mexico
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- Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 99, Nº 5, 2022, págs. 1948-1956
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Educational games have consistently proved that they are valuable didactic instruments, which can contribute to teaching and learning in an enjoyable background. In organic chemistry courses, considerable effort has been made to encourage the learning of nomenclature, an important topic, often perceived as complex, boring, and unconnected to other subjects’ knowledge. “MET-organic” is a two- to ten-player funny, engaging, easy-to-play, multilevel, and trilingual (English, French, and Spanish) game. The main objective of the game is to get rid of all the cards one has in hand, but most importantly, to learn basic organic chemistry nomenclature and to distinguish 11 of the main functional groups of this discipline in a relaxed, amusing, and appealing atmosphere. The game was tested by more than 60 students from the Facultad de Quı́mica at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), with good results in terms of playability, content, usefulness, and engagement. Additionally, the students answered a brief quiz, before and after playing the game, revealing an impressive improvement in knowledge related to correct identification of common organic functional groups. In summary, playing “MET-organic” might aid students not only to reinforce basic chemistry concepts, but also to increase their general scientific knowledge.
