A utilização do jogo ludo como ferramenta de aprendizagem no conteúdo de teoria atômica

Abstract

Teaching Chemistry has been a very difficult task because of both the great amount of contents and their complexity, therefore, a great level of abstraction is required from the students. Due to that, most of students do not appreciate that subject and that demands from the Chemistry teacher to search other mechanisms to make its teaching more pleasant meaningful to the students. The use of learning games regarding the teaching of Chemistry may contribute to improve and provide the students with a more enjoyable teaching methodology. To ground that issue, this of this work is the application of both a board game called Atomic Ludo and a questionnaire with students of the 1st year of a High School Professional Formation from a Federal Public School in the city of Teresina, Piauí. The purpose of the game is to develop with students the main characteristics of the five atomic models (Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr and the current one). It could be observed through the answers of the questionnaires that some students did not know how to coherently relate some characteristics to a particular model. However, other students were able to relate the models in a very satisfactory way. In a general way, the game was successfully accepted by the students who further said that the game had contributed to make them learn the topic concerning atomic theory.