Periodic Fable

Summary

Chemistry is a school domain considered complex or difficult by some pre-teens, leading to a lack of motivation to pursue this rich subject. Our project aims to investigate how the use of Augmented Reality serious games can engage students with chemistry while providing content knowledge. To this end, we designed and developed three AR games to facilitate and engage children (9 to 13 years old) in learning abstract scientific content about the Periodic Table of Elements. We hope to find tools/methods that can gather pre-teens’ interest in chemistry, helping towards increasing future professionals in the domain. We also want to share our research process and findings with other colleagues as a framework that can be adapted to other STEM domains.