GLYCOLYSIS ’TRAIL: BIOCHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE CON STRUCTIONTHROUGH AN EDUCATIVE GAME

Journal of Biochemistry Education

C . Nunes de Almada¹  M. S. Vasconcelos¹  F.W.P. Maia¹  D. Fernandes de Melo¹  C. N. Almada¹ 

[1] Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza-CE.;

关键词: biochemistry, educative game, glyc olysis;   

DOI  :  10.16923/reb.v7i2.202

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The study of biochemistry is complex andunatt ractive to the most of the students. Teaching strategies have to be established to stimulate the action of the student and involve  them  in the proposed subjects. For this to happen, the processes and strategies have to be analyzed and developed through cog nition tools. The objective of this work was to create, evaluate and apply an educative game called Glycolysis’ Trail, as a strategy of teaching -learning in the classes of biochemistry. The game focus  was the promotion of   group knowledge about the glycolytic  metabolic pathway. Thegame  contents are: 1 board, 1 dice, 5 pins, 12 curiosities cards, 54 question cards and 63 complementary game chips. In an experimental tryout, four students joined the test -play in the presence of a mediatort hatexplain ed the game, corrected execution errors  andstimulate dthe debate between the students. The students were submitted to an evaluation about the glycoly ticpathway before and after the game.  They observed the necessity of a previous knowledge of the game’s subject, andthe presence of the  mediator. About the use of the game as a tool for learning, the students understoodthat their mistakesand hits were important to knowledgeconsolidation  andgroup debate also. The evaluation of the quizzes applied before and after  the game, even with a so s mall experimental group,indicated a significant improvement of the learning -teaching process. The  game  results suggest that it can be used as innovative complementary tool in the building of the knowledge and the comprehension of the glycoly tic pathway .

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