Elaboração e avaliação metodológica de um jogo de tabuleiro como ferramenta de divulgação das geociências

Abstract

The Geosciences make up an interdisciplinary area that is present in the daily lives of all human beings, but is not inserted as a subject in the curriculum of Brazilian basic education. Aiming to disseminate the teaching of this great area, the intention of popularizing the knowledge of geosciences in the city of Marabá-PA arose, which has part of its economy linked to mining, since it is inserted in the largest mineral province of the planet that is Carajás. Therefore, the teaching of geosciences in basic education becomes of fundamental importance in this region. A board game called "Geologando" was chosen as a teaching method to popularize and diversify the geosciences in a playful and creative way, making the game an aid tool in the geosciences learning process for elementary and high school students. The university extension was an ally since the process of creating the layout of the cards and the "Geologando" board and later in its content validation. The game has a board with 35 squares to be played, guided by 18 cards with texts that cover several areas of geosciences. The validation was done through the Flesch Legibility Test in the cards texts, with a score of 46.6, and was defined as difficult to read, thus being indicated for high school students and college students. After the evaluation of the game as the qualitative analysis of the logbooks of the students of the Science Club (Extension Program of UNIFESSPA), it was found the contentment of the students, who requested that more activities were done in a playful way, among which 91% evaluated the game as excellent. The second evaluation was done through the elaboration and application of a questionnaire to 2nd year high school students of collegio "Anísio Teixeira", aiming to validate the performance of "Geologando" regarding its fluidity, layout, images and illustrations. The results were favorable with 100% of the evaluated students agreeing with the idea of using games as a tool for the dissemination of geosciences. Thus, the work defines that the games can be used as educational tools, using a simpler and playful language not only about geosciences, but about other subjects in the city of Marabá.