What is ChemCaper?
ChemCaper is a role playing adventure game for learning about the basics of chemistry.
It teaches the properties of different elements and their chemical reactions by providing a rich game world and a large number of different challenges which are based on chemistry concepts and the periodic table.
ChemCaper is targeted for students who play a lot of games and it is suitable for after-school use, when students have time to explore the game at their own pace.
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ChemCaper PricingPricing Plans One-Off Fee ChemCaper pricing starts from £14.99 / one-off |
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Pedagogy
Certified by Education Alliance Finland
EAF Evaluation is an academically-backed approach to evaluating the pedagogical design of a product. EAF evaluators assess the product using criteria that covers the most essential pedagogical aspects in the learning experience.
PassiveActive
Familiarizing with the properties of elements happens as a natural part of the game play and the players adopt new information with a “learning by doing” method.
RehearseConstruct
All game tasks are built around chemistry concepts. The Chempendium feature links the game world and real life chemistry phenomenons.
LinearNon-linear/Creative
The game world and the amount of challenges is wide. Users have a lot of freedom to explore the game world at their own pace and learn through exploration.
IndividualCollaborative
ChemCaper is a single player game where the user can make all decisions independently.
Learning goals
Certified by Education Alliance Finland
The supported learning goals are identified by mapping the product against the selected reference curriculum and soft skills definitions most relevant for the 21st century.
- Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms
- Using technology resources for problem solving
- Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
- Practicing persistent working
- Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
- Creating requirements for creative thinking
- Developing problem solving skills
- Practicing to look things from different perspectives
- Familiarizing with chemistry terminology and apparatus
- Learning to face failures and disappointments
- Learning to combine information to find new innovations
- Learning to build information on top of previously learned
- Practicing to notice causal connections
- Understanding properties of elements
- Remembering chemical symbols and formulae for elements and compounds
- Practicing to observe chemical reactions through experiments
- Understanding particulate nature of matter
- Practicing scientific thinking: collecting, evaluating, analysing and applying information
- Exploring and explaining properties of chemical substances that surround us
- Practicing to understand and explain chemistry phenomenons in nature
- Understanding the meaning of chemistry in sustainability