Magia e ciência: um cenário de RPG didático baseado em uma pandemia.

Abstract

The present work consists of the elaboration of an RPG module, that is, a short adventure ready to instruct the participants to play without the need for great planning. The game is a magical and simplified representation of the consequences brought by a pandemic to a society and what role biology content plays in a reality like this. Using the homebrewery website and the dungeondraft program, based on a review of the following biology content: microbiology, microscopy, virology, mycology and cell biology, a game was produced, set in a magical world inspired by medieval Europe. Players seek to learn more about the disease and the events that surround it, confronting the social and political aspects that permeate a crisis in public health. In this magical world a curse appears to be spreading across the population of the Kingdom of Cheliar and players must solve this problem, however no one can fight it with magic. The game proposed to be attractive even outside the school environment and to be an alternative to expository classes, with an alternative posture in relation to traditional pedagogy. Its application in biology classes can be limited by the logistics of time in the classroom and the number of students. The absence of application of the game in a real situation ends up limiting the possibilities of analyzing the full potential of the game. We conclude that using RPG in a school environment, through a project, combined with the complementation of the biological content present in the module, seems to be an alternative to the way schools present subjects in the classroom and verify student performance.