Active learning card game and method for game based teaching and learning of periodic table of chemical elements

An active learning educational card game comprising a set of cards and rules for playing at least one card game using said set of cards, each of said cards representing a respective one of the chemical elements listed in the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements and carrying information about said one of the chemical elements, together forming a detachable physical model of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements, the rules prescribing for cards to be distributed to the players who, in their turns in a particular round of the game, to skip the round by playing a card of pre-defined type, or to spoil a round by declaring a nuke attack by playing a card of pre-defined type or to neutralize a nuke attack in progress by playing a card of pre-defined type or attempt to earn cards by playing card of highest value of a pre-defined type and optionally use cards collected by the player to form pre-defined patterns on the Periodic Table of Elements or to form chemical compounds formulas or to balance the ionic equation representing chemical reactions, points being scored according to the value of the cards earned.