UnSaLuDo: The development of an educational board game on unsaturated soil mechanics

Non-conventional tools of teaching are effective in delivering deep learning scientific facts as well skills associated with disciplines. A well-known method to promote student engagement and general is the use games classrooms. Games can provide a flexible option that could engage students, create active experiences, enable them experiment safe playful environments. This paper presents UnSaLuDo, board game developed by GeoFUN group. The goal was develop tool enables students experience fun integrational activities classroom setting while complex targeted threshold concepts related unsaturated soil mechanics. topics covered UnSaLuDo included fundamental cohesion adhesion liquids, surface tension, contact angle capillary rise; water retention flow soils; volume change, deformation, shear strength soils. provides background information on motivation for development an overview covered. also all components suggests approaches how it be incorporated into geotechnics courses.