Jogo didático quiminvestigação: uma ferramenta para o ensino de quimica inorgânica em nível médio

Abstract

Studies published in the Teaching of Chemistry highlight the importance of using educational games as auxiliary resources to the teaching-learning process, since such resources can contribute to motivation, interest and interaction in the classroom. This paper discusses the development, evaluation and implementation of an educational game for teaching Inorganic Chemistry in high school. This educational game introduces an investigative perspective because it works with the chemical content, periodic table and inorganic functions (acids, bases and salts) through cases that require from the students a solution. Initially for this research, we prepared the game, its rules and the cases then this was evaluated by three professors of Inorganic Chemistry in higher education. And later, the educational game was applied to high school students at a public school in the city of Alfenas. It must be noted that this teaching resource was also evaluated by the teacher responsible for chemistry for these students. Based on the data obtained through the evaluation, it was found that the game has characteristics that may contribute to student learning as contextualized approach cases and playfulness. Regarding the use of educational game, it was observed that this can aid the process of teaching and learning through interaction in the classroom.