O JOGO DIDÁTICO ORGANO PLAY NA AVALIAÇÃO DE PROFESSORES DE QUÍMICA

Abstract

Educational games are resources that promote a playful and contextualized approach to complex concepts involved in understanding everyday phenomena. For this reason, it is extremely important that new studies focus on proposing and evaluating games and their potential and limitations in the teaching and learning processes of chemistry. In this direction, the present research offers an overview of scientific publications from the period between 2017 and 2024, published in journals ranked Qualis A1 to B2, which address games in Chemistry Education. The objective of this study was to analyze the potential and limitations of the Organo Play game, as identified by chemistry teachers from public schools in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. The educational game contextualizes the topic of organic compounds and their functional groups based on situations present in students’ daily lives, promoting social interaction and learning through play, grounded in Vygotsky's theory. It is up to the teacher to apply and/or adapt the Organo Play game according to the content being addressed and the different learning profiles of the class. This is a qualitative study, and data were collected using two questionnaires, applied before and after the teachers’ evaluation of the game. The data were analyzed using Bardin’s Content Analysis methodology. As a result, the first stage, which mapped the scientific production, revealed a limited number of studies connecting educational games to the teaching of organic chemistry. Regarding the evaluation of the educational product, the participating teachers emphasized that the Organo Play game is a promising instructional resource for teaching organic chemistry. They also highlighted its potential to help overcome challenges such as students’ knowledge gaps, lack of motivation, and limitations imposed by the official curriculum of Mato Grosso do Sul. Finally, it is expected that the developed educational product will contribute to innovation and transformation in the teaching and learning processes of organic chemistry. Keywords: Functional Groups; Vygotsky; Educational Games.