'Which Pathway Am I?' Using a Game Approach To Teach Students about Biochemical Pathways

摘要

The use of games to teach chemistry concepts has been described extensively in this Journal (1, 2) and is especially advocated to help students learn topics that require memorization or drill-and-practice. Some of these topics include the names and symbols of the elements (3–5), inorganic nomenclature and formula writing (6–9), organic nomenclature and functional groups (7, 10, 11), organic mechanisms (12), the names and one- and three-letter symbols for the amino acids (13), and the isomerization of monosaccharides (14). Although most of these articles have simply described the game to be used, one of these studies provided data to show that using games to teach inorganic nomenclature and formula writing improved students’ abilities to write chemical formulas and provide proper names for these compounds (8).