Ion: A Compound Building Game

  Our “Resources Included" tags indicate supplemental Board Gaming with Education resources for your classroom or at-home learning with your purchase.   Ion is a card drafting game with no down time, where players select from a number of available ions and noble gases, with the goal of forming neutrally charged compounds or sets of noble gases. Players score additional points for creating compounds found on the goal cards each round.     "The science teachers in my school were just beside themselves. They just thought, ‘I did not know games could do this." -Portal Gaming Podcast     See the Ideas for Using Ion in Class (PDF) below for more details about the number of players for your learning environment, length of time for various activities, and appropriate grade-level activities.   Players: 2 - 7 Time: 20 - 30 minutes Age: 8+   Rodger recommends using Ion for introducing interactions between elements, specifically ions. It uses just a few ions to show students ho