BioDomain – A fun way to work with Biochemistry content

• Autor(a) principal: de Alcantara, Samara Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Gomes, Pedro Henrique Benício, Ruiz, Cristiane Regina, Martins, Aline Paternostro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ensino de Bioquímica
• DOI: 10.16923/reb.v20i1.975
• Texto Completo: http://bioquimica.org.br/revista/ojs/index.php/REB/article/view/975
• topic: Metodologia ativa; Jogos; Bioquímica; jogo didático, bioquímica, metodologia ativa.

Biochemistry is a discipline present in courses of several areas, such as health, environment, biotechnology, and agronomy; despite its relevance, it is viewed with fear by most students. Due to the difficulties that students have in this subject, the development of active learning methodologies that facilitate their learning is necessary, and the use of educational games has been shown to be effective in the teaching-learning process. Thus, the objective of this work was to develop, apply and evaluate a didactic game that contemplates the biochemistry content. A board game, called BioDomain, was developed based on questions and answers. The group that answers the most questions correctly is the winner. The game was applied remotely, by the Teams platform, during the academic monitoring program. A questionnaire was created on the Forms platform to assess the effectiveness of the game. This questionnaire was made available to students who did and did not participate in the activity, after the end of the game. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the game as a didactic tool, since the students found the activity pleasurable and the game effectively helped in understanding the subject, showing the importance of developing and using different methodologies to teach biochemistry.