"Julie Newdoll’s Electronimoes is an easily learned, colorful game. The bonding combinations that one comes up with in the course of game make sense. They teach beautifully, and even researchers may wonder at what molecules students can make!”
Professor Roald Hoffmann - Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
Cornell University, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with Kenichi Fukui)
Royal Chemistry Society give First Electronimoes great review! 2017
"They grasped the rules quickly and within a few rounds were discussing ways of bonding atoms together and identifying molecules they had never covered in class."
This is an archival page to provide videos and instruction for previous buyers. Electronimoes are no longer for sale. Please see www.brushwithharmony.com for Julie Newdoll's current website and projects.
| First Electronimoes comes with a game and play money. Circular atom cards have color and shape coded bonds to guide molecule making. Colors are spelled out for the color blind, as well. |
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How to play Molecule Emporium, one game that comes with the cards. Video of younger players, but older players get just as much and more out of these content-rich designs.
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Charge Electronimoes, the Second Deck, has Electronegativity and Ionization Energy printed on the cards, plus extra cards and concepts. Lewis structure activity and game involving drawing structures included.
Can be used as an extender deck to play the First Electronimoes games, as well. Buy for $47.99 on The Game Crafter, and extra decks for $32.99 to make more elaborate molecules or play with more people.
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Orbital Electronimoes and Ultimate Electronimoes are extender decks with more advanced concepts that you can also play the First and Second Electronimoes games with. They are colored by orbital type. A great resource when you are required to note the orbital hybridization of a molecule! Buy Orbital Electronimoes, a 54 card 3.5" circular quality die-cut deck and color double sided instruction sheet from The Game Crafter for $21.99.
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Announcing Chemical Energy Bars (patent pending). Manufactured soon.
Chemical Energy Bars are going through a manufacturing redesign. Check back later for new version. |
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Manual download.
Below are the original Classic Electronimoes. See the video below for one of the games, and to see how they fit together. The color scheme is by orbital type, where 1s orbitals are green, 2s are blue, and the 2p orbitals are red, yellow and magenta. The oxygen below is an sp3 hybrid orbital, so a rainbow of blue, yellow, magenta and yellow. You don't need to know about how orbitals work to use the cards, but the symbolism is there for discussion and for seeing patterns in atoms that bond in a similar ways.
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Contact julie @ brushwithscience.com for large quantity pricing.
Using the Journey to Neon system in a classroom:
Here is a review by the Gifted Homeschoolers Forum, GHF. There is a complete system for learning about atoms, elements, bonding, orbitals and MORE embedded in the Journey to Neon game series. All games can be played without prior knowledge of these deeper topics. See the Teacher's Guide section for a manual, free handouts, and information on Formularrows, a stepping stone to Lewis structures.
But are they FUN?
The Journey to Neon series was designed by a professional artist with a degrees in Microbiology and Medical Illustration, in collaboration with expert scientists from the National Academy of Science and the Royal Chemistry Society. They are aesthetically beautiful and unique, tactile and nice to hold. There are many games, tested by young and old audiences for their "fun" factor. A special card game was designed for the real gamer in mind called Kubla Chemist, which you can find on the Electronimoes pages and in the Teacher's Guide. If you make up your own rules for the cards or the other board games, let us know! We will post new games for everyone to share.
Use music to teach chemistry. . .
Julie Newdoll's new release "Journey to Neon" uses the electron configuration of elements to create the rhythms for her symphonic suite of the first ten elements. Preview and buy it here at bandcamp.