Um jogo para o ensino de microrganismos, protozoários e helmintos

Abstract

The content of Domains of living beings and viruses, students need to understand the structure, metabolism, pathogenesis, taxonomy and other aspects about these organisms. The content has its own vocabulary, is extensive and becomes tiring during the explanation. However, having little knowledge about the diseases dealt with in the content is necessary for the student to know how to prevent them, acquiring biological knowledge that he can apply in his daily life. Developing and applying new teaching methods is the teacher's task. Thus, this work aims at the elaboration of a board game and cards to teach about the Bacteria Domain, Eucaria Domain (Protist Kingdom, Fungi and Animalia) and Viruses, and was approved by the Ethics Committee in research with human beings under the opinion n ° 3,233,912. The students were divided into 6 groups that, after explaining the content, drew up at least two letters with 15 tips each, to find out which the disease is or who is the causative agent. These letters were corrected and returned to the students, so that they could type them in with the necessary corrections and return them again to the teacher, who transformed the contents of the letters into a graph for analysis. A vote was taken with the students to choose the name of the game and the board style. At the end of the construction of all the cards and the board, the students played. The less hints he needed, the more he would advance on the board. At that time, an analysis was also made of the number of tips used, by theme, during two rounds, three groups at a time. Analyzing the students' engagement with the proposed activities and the observed results, it can be said that the work was performed with a good participation and dedication of the students, despite some exceptions. This project allowed us to work with students: interpersonal relationships, collectivity, cooperative learning, commitment, exchange of knowledge, in addition to teaching the theme of the project in a different way.