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## UJI alumni develop a card game to learn the Periodic Table efficiently and funny‬ ‪The ChemMend project has been published in the "Journal of Chemical Education."‬‬

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To know the Periodic Table is essential in the field of chemistry, but its memorisation is often tedious and complex for students. Vicente Martí Centelles and Jenifer Rubio Magnieto, alumni of Chemistry at the Universitat Jaume I, have developed a game for secondary school students and first years of university, and anyone interested in chemistry, to learn the group and period each chemical element belongs to in the Periodic Table in an easy, simple and funny way. Two years of work and experimentation in the classroom have resulted into ChemMend, a game that has been reported on the International Journal of Chemical Education.

‪ChemMend is the first existing game that allows exploring and gaining knowledge about the groups and periods of elements since; so far, existing games on the Periodic Table are focused on linking the different elements with their symbol. The gameplay is similar to the popular UNO, but this time is to follow the reference card with cards that correspond to the same group of elements or the same period, or to use one of the cards that act as a wildcard and which introduce different instructions as jumping a turn, draw cards from the deck, change direction, make a drawing, etc.

‪The playwrights explained that the initiative came "as an idea of education improvement following the various teacher training activities we have taken throughout our history as college and post-doctoral and master students." ‪Their experience as students encouraged them to develop a project in their spare time in order to learn the periodic table as the result of a game.

‪The development process of ChemMend lasted almost two years, including tests by secondary school and college teachers collaborators. At first, Professor Sergio Menargues Irles tested the game with secondary students at the school Colegio Sagrada Corazón Hermanos Maristas in Alicante. After having played several sessions, the students made a report in which they raised their impressions and suggestions for improvement. From these suggestions, various changes were made and teachers Eduardo Garcia-Verdugo Cepeda, at the Universitat Jaume I, and Francisco Sánchez Tárrega, at the secondary school IES Sa Colomina in Ibiza, again tested the game. Both tested the game in several sessions and gave a questionnaire to students that included several questions and exercises to complete, before and after the sessions. ‪Thanks to these tests was proven the improvement of the game and its usefulness for students of secondary and early college years, as all the students had improved their knowledge of the elements of the Periodic Table after playing ChemMend.

‪Currently, the game can be downloaded from the website of the research journal Journal of Chemical Education to which most universities are subscribed. The developers of the project highlight the interest of the teaching community in using ChemMend in their classes. "Several people, particularly Asians who want to use the project idea developed in our game in their research work measuring the impact of the use of educational games in classrooms, have contacted us."

‪Vicente Martí and Jenifer Rubio have dedicated the game to the memory of Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the UJI Purificación Escribano which both had as a teacher "and conveyed us her passion for teaching, for chemistry and for a well done work."

Reference: [J. Chem Educ, 2014, 91 (6), pp. 868-871.](http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed300733w)

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