Elementaurs Card Game

Product Description

Elementaurs is a new exciting chemistry card game in which two players battle for the biggest army of mysterious Elementaur creatures. Elements of the periodic table have been turned into fantasy creatures and students prepare chemical compounds when they pair up the boy and girl Elementaurs.

An enormous amount of real chemical information is embedded in the images and the information on the cards. It is equally an adventure into a fantasy world and a chemistry learning experience. Developed by Australian science educators. 

Age: 8 - 14 years 

The price is for one deck of cards and includes a full colour instruction booklet.

Here are more information for teachers:

"Elementaurs can be played at any age but is primarily aimed at eight to fourteen year olds with adventure, romance, team building and unusual characters drawing the children in. Elementaurs is not just for the science minded. It is for those who panic at the thought of chemistry as it provides a simple, sensible framework for understanding the basics of the periodic table and its fascinating elements.

 “Any time the students get some free time they are asking to play the Elementaurs Game.” Year Six Teacher

Schools

The cards work well as an educational tool. The Elementaurs have been endorsed by the Science Teachers’ Association of Western Australia and teachers believe that the cards can play a role in improving the scientific interest and literacy of students who might otherwise decide that science is not for them.

Topics covered during set lessons using the cards include:

• Chemical nomenclature (symbols, element names & compound names)
• Valences of the elements
• Trends of the periodic table
• Electronegativities and reactivity of the elements
• The role of electrons
• Creating compounds
• Balancing chemical equations
• Basic atomic structure

“I am thrilled with the thorough understanding of the elements and the periodic table that the majority of students have shown after only five hours of lessons. A test six weeks after the last lesson showed that they had retained most of the learning.” Teacher of Grade 6/7 class

“The lesson plans are easy to follow and the girls just love playing the game.” 

Teacher of Grade 6 girls.

“The cards are great for the students who didn’t understand these concepts the first time around. They love the characters and are open to learning the science.” Curriculum Support Year Nine

After presenting to high school teachers at the Future Science Conference in WA, most of them said that they would find the cards useful in helping to teach Chemistry in years 8 to 10. Particularly for year 8 and 9."