"Qual a sua descoberta?": um jogo de tabuleiro como ferramenta didática de aproximação do universo químico e do cotidiano dos estudantes.

Abstract

It is crucial that the school teacher has various tools and didactic strategies to make classes attractive. From this perspective, the aim of the work is to develop a board game both to support students in the learning process and to help teachers in classroom. The game “What is your discovery?” consists of five modalities of exchanging letters with the different branches of Chemistry. Each letter has something to be guessed. This process is aided by hints, which are presented in descending order of difficult, in six levels. This game was intended to be an active support tool for teachers, in particular providing review for the main contents and concepts related to high school Chemistry, not being restricted to isolated areas of this science. In this work, it is also presented the experience of a high school class with the game, where aspects such as the impact on reviewing previous concepts, motivation and social interaction are explored. The results obtained, which are data collected from questionnaires applied, indicate that the game “What is your discovery?” can be used as an efficient tool, particularly regarding conexion to student motivation.

Key words: Board game, Chemistry teaching, Play methodology, Motivation.