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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Science concepts. The student understands and applies various rules regarding acids and bases.

For example:
Vinegar is the common English name for acetic acid, CH3OOH.
Caffeine is the common English name for 3,7-dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione.  

The IUPAC name encodes the structure and composition of the molecule and allows a chemist to unambiguously reference the molecule.

any substance that in aqueous (water) solution tastes sour, changes blue litmus paper to red, reacts with some metals to liberate hydrogen, reacts with bases to form salts, promotes chemical reactions (acid catalysis), and has a pH less than 7

any substance that in aqueous (water) solution is slippery to the touch, tastes bitter, changes the color of indicators (e.g., turns red litmus paper blue), reacts with acids to form salts, promotes certain chemical reactions (base catalysis), and has a pH greater than 7

Research

Buendía-Atencio, Cristian, Gilles Paul Pieffet, and Vaneza Paola Lorett Velásquez. "WERNER: A Card Game for Reinforcement Learning of Inorganic Chemistry Nomenclature." Journal of Chemical Education 99, no.5 (2022): 2198. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00166

Summary:  Identifying and naming inorganic compounds is sometimes a challenge for many first-year chemistry and engineering students; however, these difficulties can be overcome after extensive practice using homework sets based on naming inorganic compounds or applying inorganic nomenclature rules. In the classroom, a card game was used immediately after explaining the basic nomenclature rules. Overall, the students found the game engaging and enjoyable, and they responded favorably to its use as an educational didactic tool.