Didática lúdica na química: a utilização do jogo “explorando os elementos químicos” como proposta para o ensino - aprendizagem de tabela periódica

Abstract

The discipline of chemistry is quite rejected because it is seen as a discipline of much memorization and much calculation, in this way, it is important to develop methodologies that facilitate student learning. Because of this, we have in the educational games one of several educational methodologies that aim to improve teaching through a learning in a flexible way, bringing interactionism to the school environment. In this sense, we developed a game called "Exploring the Chemical Elements", which was applied with students from the 1st year of high school in three schools (one state public school, one federal public network, and one private school network). The objective of this work was presented with the results of the game application that gathers information about the Periodic Table, knowing the elements and their characteristics in a relaxed way. We used two questionnaires, one before and another after the application of the game, in which we sought to know from the students their experiences with differentiated methodologies, their opinions regarding teaching ludicity and the improvement of the learning of periodic table content, after the game. Among the findings, it was observed that, the game was well accepted by the students of the three schools and there was a better assimilation of the content through the previous knowledge analyzed and the answers after the game in the three schools.