Abstract

FRANCO-MARISCAL, Antonio Joaquín; OLIVA-MARTINEZ, José María  and  BERNAL-MARQUEZ, Serafín. A literature review on the role of educational games in the study of the chemical elements.: Part I: Games for knowledge of the Periodic Table. Educ. quím [online]. 2012, vol.23, n.3, pp.338-345. ISSN 0187-893X.

A great effervescence of educational proposals, recreational type mainly, about the topic of the chemical elements and their periodic classification has arisen in the literature in recent years. This article is the first in a series of two in which we make a review of the main bibliographical sources in the literature about the use of games in teaching and learning this subject. The different proposals are categorized into two groups, depending on the tackled content. In this first part we review the background around to the students familiarization with the names and symbols of chemical elements and their place in the periodic table. The review of elaborated proposals that help to understand more complex aspects related to the nature, the foundations and the applications of the periodic table have been left for the second part.

Keywords : literature review; educational game; chemical elements; periodic table.