The spatial understanding required for success in organic chemistry is not readily accessible via traditional textbook and lecture delivery systems. Many students require immediate feedback as they try to make sense of the visual-spatial ideas at the core of the curriculum. We are creating mobile games for organic chemistry, allowing students to discover the rules of acidity, resonance, and mechanisms through game-based learning. With a touch screen, students will feel the molecules interact and will understand bond-making and bond-breaking differently. The games layer audio, visual, and kinesthetic cues into the mobile user interface, creating new tools for developing the intuition of a successful chemistry student. Most importantly, students have an engaging method of learning they can take with them anywhere on their mobile devices. The development of this suite of games will be described. In addition, future work including the algorithms to incorporate adaptive learning and data analytics into the game platform will be discussed.

<b>Award Address</b> (James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific). Building mobile games for organic chemistry

251st National Meeting (2016)

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Award Address (James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific). Building mobile games for organic chemistry