On the trail of Transposons: the proposal of a low-cost playful activity to facilitate learning in Genetics

• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalves, Tiago Maretti
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Karasawa, Marines Marli Gniech
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/25714
• topic: Metodología alternativa; Enseñanza-aprendizaje; Elementos de transposición; Materiales de enseñanza; Extensión.; Teaching-learning; Transposable elements; Teaching materials; Alternative methodology; Extension.; Metodologia alternativa; Ensino-aprendizagem; Elementos de transposição; Materiais didáticos; Extensão.

In higher education, in Biological Sciences area, Genetics topics are abstract, being seen by many students as complex. The theme of mobile elements (transposons) holds a great deal of information and new terms that must be very well contextualized by students. To overcome such obstacles, facilitating the learning of the content, the main objective of this article is to propose, build and approach a playful activity called “On the trail of the Transposons”. Using simple and low-cost materials, the game becomes an ally in the pursuit of knowledge, attracting the student's attention and providing a more playful and didactic class applied in higher education within the disciplines of Classical Genetics and Molecular Biology.