Jogos lúdicos no ensino de química e sua aplicabilidade em turmas de Ensino Médio, na Escola Deputado Pinheiro Machado, Cocal-PI

Abstract

One of the main challenges in the teaching of Chemistry is associating the content taught to the everyday lives of students, that get unmotivated when they cannot relate what is being taught with their practical lives. A general complaint of the students is that classes are boring and tiresome, what is reflected in the lack of motivation and school performance. Aiming at reducing this difficulty we thought about methods that could change this reality, hence the ludic games were chosen to this research. This work had as main goal analyzing the applicability of the ludic games in the teaching of Chemistry, as a resource to the learning of students of Pinheiro Machado High School in Cocal-PI. The games were applied in 3rd-year classes, approaching the following contents: introduction to organic chemistry, carbon chains and their classifications, and hydrocarbons. At last questionnaires were applied to assess the opinion and performance of the students in the subject, where we could observe the positive result of the activity and understand that the games are efficient elements to help in the teaching-learning process