CR322: A Web-Based Board Game for Aiding Students in Reviewing Chemical Reactivity

Abstract

This report details the design of an online trilingual (English, French, and Portuguese) interactive virtual board game and its implementation at the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil. It was used as a fun alternative to assist chemistry and pharmacy undergraduate students in reviewing introductory concepts to organic reactions: enthalpy, entropy, Gibbs free energy, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, nucleophiles, electrophiles, and reactive intermediates. Also, learners positively evaluated the game as an alternative method to conventional educational strategies for reviewing the content related to chemical reactivity.