Educational games as an alternative for teaching the periodic table to Tzotzil secondary school students

This research was carried out in a secondary school in the municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas, Mexico; where games such as the chemistry pyramid, create your words with chemical symbols, guess what element I am, snakes and ladders and Quimi trivial were used, with the objective of evaluating the efficiency of educational games as a complementary tool in learning the periodic table of chemical elements with Tzotzil secondary school students. A quantitative approach was used, with a quasi-experimental design, in which a total of forty-eight (48) students participated, twenty-six (26) experimental group, twenty-two (22) control group. Using a Pre test and Post-test of performance and a Likert Scale perception survey. The results showed that the application of educational games significantly increased student learning. In addition, the survey revealed that students enjoyed the games and recommended that they be used to learn chemistry.