“Comprando Ésteres” - elaboração e validação de um jogo para o ensino de funções orgânicas

Abstract

This work aimed to analyze the game “Buying Esters” as to its potential for teaching organic functions from the validation with pairs carried out by Chemistry teachers. We took as a starting point an initial game proposal, developed in a discipline of the Chemistry Degree course at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), we carried out an initial review of the structure and rules of the game, and then we applied it in a remote format. due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with nine Chemistry teachers in activity or in the final stage of initial training. The proposed intervention included a questionnaire of prior conceptions, application of the game via the Google Meet tool and a questionnaire with the participants after the application was carried out. We seek to validate the game based on criteria available in the literature, namely: interaction between players, learning dimension, gameplay, application, challenge, spatial and temporal limitations and creativity. Finally, we made some modifications to the proposal, in order to meet the validation criteria that were not included in the applied proposal. We conclude that the game “Buying Esters” the proposal has potential for effective learning about Esters, including the properties and everyday use of compounds belonging to this organic function. Through data analysis, we realized that the game was validated in all criteria listed in the methodology and available in the scientific literature on games and recreational activities in science teaching.