Mandacaru radioativa: uma proposta de gamificação no Google Forms para o ensino de Química

Abstract

The teaching of Chemistry is sometimes seen as very complex by students. Regarding the teaching of Radioactivity, there is an even greater deficit, since it is a content that is usually present at the end of the books, causing the unavailability to use the theme in the classroom. In this sense, using different methodologies so that the teaching and learning process is more effective can be an alternative. One of the alternatives can be gamification. Gamification fits as an active methodology and is used in the educational environment to promote greater motivation, participation and engagement in students. From this, the objective of this work was to build a gamified activity for the content of Radioactivity contextualized for High School. For this, qualitative research was carried out in four stages. In the first stage, a bibliographic review was carried out covering the main aspects about the work on gamification in the teaching of Chemistry. The second stage consisted in the construction of the Gamified Activity (GA) based on the literature review. In the third stage, the application of AG was carried out in high school classes. And, in the fourth stage, the analysis of students' perceptions about AG was carried out. Data collection was carried out through questionnaires, interviews and simple observations, and data analysis was performed based on Active Technological Learning (ATA), Revised Bloom's Taxonomy, and gamification assumptions. The results show that only eight articles discussed gamification in Chemistry teaching and that only one article involved the content of radioactivity and gamification. In addition, in the analysis of the articles, the main elements of the games used that contributed to the construction of the gamified proposal entitled “Mandacaru Radioativa” were observed. Regarding the results obtained through the application of the activity, it was identified that gamification can directly influence the effective learning of students, since it promoted greater participation, engagement and autonomy of the participants, being one of the main characteristics to be obtained through the ATA linked to gamification. With this, it is believed that this type of activity can be used not only in physical classrooms, but anywhere and at any time, requiring only internet access, which suggests its potential to contribute to an active teaching of students, expanding their perceptions about the teaching of Chemistry.