Despertando a motivação para o aprendizado de ciências utilizando jogo lúdico no ensino fundamental.

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of how the playful game combined with traditional classroom can assist in the learning matter of pure substances and mixtures in the 9th grade of elementary school. The study was realized in a private educational institution from the city of Fortaleza, with 32 students and an age group ranging between 13 and 15 years. The methodology consisted of applying an initial questionnaire to check the students' prior knowledge, followed by lecture and the application of fisioQUÍMICA game. The game used was developed following the trend of a strategy game that uses chemicals in food and in the students daily life and their effects on the human body. After the game, we used the final questionnaire to assess progress achieved through the content covered in class and the use of didactic game as an aid learning. It was observed that the students had a progress in the knowledge passed on through traditional classroom, facilitating their differentiation between types of mixtures and identification of pure substances and that fisioQUÍMICA game was well accepted by the students . It was concluded that the use of games in chemistry education can be considered an important methodological tool to make the lessons more interesting chemical, assisting in the teaching-learning process.