JumpStart uses School of Dragons game to teach chemistry.
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JumpStart uses School of Dragons mobile puzzle game to teach chemistry

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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JumpStart announced its new mobile game School of Dragons: Alchemy Adventure today. It’s something the educational game publisher feels can teach kids chemistry using a match 3-style puzzler.

It’s based on DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon movie series. Kids match elements from the Periodic Table to create compounds in a way that seems a lot more fun than rote memorization.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.