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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1999  > April  >
Chemistry Everyday for Everyone
Using Games To Teach Chemistry. 2. CHeMoVEr Board Game
Jeanne V. Russell
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX 79762
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April 1999
Vol. 76 No. 4
p. 487
Abstract
A board game similar to Sorry or Parcheesi was developed. Students must answer chemistry questions correctly to move their game piece around the board. As in most board games, the winner is the person who gets his or her piece to the center first. The game is currently being used in the laboratory about a month and a half into the General Chemistry course. While one student group works with nomenclature exercises on the computer, the other group plays CheMoVEr using two different card decks. The first deck contains questions on balancing equations and identifying the types of equations. The second contains questions on predicting products from given reactants. The questions are designed to have short answers to keep the game active and interesting. Three other decks have been developed and are available for student use throughout the semester; they contain questions on element symbols, polyatomic ions, and inorganic nomenclature.
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Examples of game cards are available as supplementary material, which can be accessed as a pdf file using Acrobat Reader. The game cards are also available as 18 Microsoft Word documents that have been compressed into zip (for Windows) and sit (for Macintosh) files.
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 Russell, Jeanne V. J. Chem. Educ. 1999 76 487.
*  Keywords
 Introductory / High School Chemistry; Teaching / Learning Aids; Stoichiometry; Nomenclature / Units / Symbols
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Last Updated:		 June 14, 1999
November 22, 2005
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