The course“Metal Materials and Heat Treatment”is mostly taught in traditional teaching methods．Facing this kind of course with boring knowledge，most college students will have a rejection mentality and cannot achieve the purpose of attracting students to learn actively，resulting in unsatisfactory teaching effect．Therefore，how to stimulate students’learning initiative in teaching has become an important topic．Based on solving the above problems，using games as the carrier to let students understand and master the knowledge under the concept of“learning by playing”is a kind of teaching method that combines teaching with pleasure．GBL teaching method is an innovative teaching method that uses games as a medium to help teachers better

complete the teaching objectives of the course with the fun and flexibility of games．Applying GBL teaching method to the teaching of Metal Materials and Heat Treatment can stimulate students’learning motivation and improve teaching effect and efficiency．