Escape Room: elaboração e validação de um jogo didático para o ensino de química básica

Abstract

The chemistry is a discipline present in the school curriculum, since it is present in everyday life and has contributed to society, despite its relevance, it presents several difficulties in its teaching-learning in the classroom, among them the demotivation of students. In this sense, gamification in chemistry teaching has the potential to present positive results, since the ludic naturally arouses curiosity and youth interest. In view of this, this work portrays the development and evaluation of the Escape Room, a didactic game that comprises subjects of chemistry addressed in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades of High School. The digital game developed was applied as a pilot test with undergraduate students in chemistry, in order to assess the impact on motivation and learning. To validate the Escape Room prototype as a didactic tool, the MEEGA+ educational game evaluation instrument was used, which evaluates the user's perception in two quality factors, namely, usability and the player's experience in relation to the game. The results obtained were significant, showing that the game is capable of promoting fun, interaction, satisfaction, confidence and contributes to learning. However, the game presented some points to be improved, such as the ease of play, accessibility and little immersion of the student in the Escape Room. Finally, the escape game is an active methodology proposal that can be used in the classroom as an activity to review and/or fix chemical content.