PolimeRace: um jogo didático para tratar assuntos de genética com alunos do Ensino Médio de Biologia através do ensino investigativo

Abstract

The results of the Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica (IDEB) in 2019 confirmed the differences within the state of Rio de Janeiro, where basic-education has been evaluated based on knowledge of Portuguese and mathematics, and the value of scientific education, for the development of the country and the training of the citizen, was ignored. Faced with this situation, it is necessary to reduce the disparity and gap between school knowledge, commons knowledge and scientific knowledge, to the point of improving teaching to a condition that can scientifically solve humans issues. For Vygotsky, the toy instigates initiative, curiosity and self-confidence, enables the expansion of thought, language, attention and concentration. Besides, the affective aspects are decisive in the construction of individuality and are shown explicitly in a game. From this context, the present work aims at the creation of a didactic game that assists the teacher of High School Biology as a didactic strategy in its mediation of the teaching-learning process of Genetics contents. The inclusion of games in pedagogical practice can favour the advancement of the association of meaning to its symbol by the construction of knowledge, which is especially important in the context of Genetics, given the abstraction necessary to understand the contents of this area of knowledge. Added to this is the potential of games by stimulating the students' reasoning, group performance and linguistic expression. The game PolimeRace was built-in board format, with the idea of racing, and can count on the participation of up to four participants or groups of participants. The dynamic is through questions and answers in which the errors keep the groups inert and the hits provide the advance through the board, being these provided by luck to the throwing of dice. The game is built with the participation of high school students, who made surveyed subjects, doubts or everyday curiosities related to Genetics that arouse their interest. This active research of the students served as the basis for the elaboration of the letters questions, prepared by the same, that will be part of the strategy of the game. Win the game the participant/group who can answer all the questions that are thrown to him and thus reach the finish line first.