“Pensando sobre os Quelônios”: jogo didático para o ensino de ciências e biologia na perspectiva da educação ambiental

Abstract

The school plays an important role in the formation of conscientious citizens and environmental education, approached as a cross-cutting theme, should be used to work on topics such as the preservation of chelonian species of the Podocnemis genus in the Tocantins-Araguaia basin. The species of the genus Podocnemis, in addition to being used as subsistence food, play important roles in providing several ecosystem services, especially related to the food web due to their considerable faunal biomass, organic matter cycling and seed dispersal, being part of the species group that operate in the maintenance and ecosystem balance. The objective of this work was to produce a playful didactic game called "Thinking About Chelonians", to be used by biology teachers in elementary and high school classes, promoting the socialization and awareness of the students involved for the conservation of existing chelonians in the region and emphasizing its ecological importance. The game was produced to be carried out in three phases: a question game and three answer options, where three boards were conditioned in which the student indicates the option of the right answer; assembly of a puzzle where the pieces contain the answers corresponding to the questions that are in a panel made with Styrofoam, paper, cardboard and wood, the pieces fix a metallic part in magnets hidden in the Styrofoam; and a memory game. The playful game was produced to be used as a versatile teaching strategy that can be used in classes by teachers in all grades of science for elementary school and biology in high school. It aims at the collaboration of all students in the dissemination of knowledge about the preservation of chelonians among family members and other people in the community, providing the study of knowledge of the students' perspectives on the preservation of chelonians in the Tocantins-Araguaia basin, with important elements for the formation of citizens aware of environmental preservation.