Banco de Mendeleev: uma estratégia lúdica e didática para o ensino em química do tema tabela periódica.

Abstract

Nowadays, Chemistry education faces difficulties in the search for new tools be used in teaching and learning development to increase student’s interest. In this context, students in the Chemistry courses at UFC, especially undergration, through CluQui (Club of Chemistry), have been working in the development of new strategies and leisure tools to improve the interest of high school Chemistry students concern. This Project got the results of the implementation of a board game name “Mendeleev's bank” created by the members of CluQui. This game has a very useful didactic and was applied as an auxiliary tool to work the theme about the periodic table and its periodic properties. It was introduced and evaluated with second year students of the high school João Batista College (Lagoa Redonda, Fortaleza). The project methodology involves the appliance of a diagnostic test to assess the level of prior knowledge of the students on the topic. Furthermore, students played the game and, at the endo f the process, answered a test about what they have learned trougth it, besides applying a previous test as a diagnosis. Tabulation and analysis of the results were done and it was verified that the game “Mendeleev's bank” lead the theme of learning. To summarise, based on the evaluation results of the game, it has been concluded that educational games act as a helpful methodology to assist the educational skills in learning Chemistry.