O lúdico na educação: contribuição dos jogos didáticos no ensino de ciências

Abstract

Playfulness has always been present in the lives of human beings, since ancient times games and games have been part of the daily lives of children and adults. To guide the study, the general objective was to show the importance of using educational games as a means of facilitating Science teaching. The research is a qualitative bibliographical review, using the descriptors Didactic games, Sciences, Playful and learning facilitation for the search on the Google Scholar platform. The research included articles, monographs, theses, case studies, books and e-books in Portuguese that discussed the topic, published between 2009 and 2023. Articles in other languages were excluded. After analyzing 24 works on the topic, it was possible to verify that the authors credit playfulness with improving Science teaching. In addition, games and games provide, in the authors' view, cognitive development and intellect.