APPLICATION OF LUDIC ACTIVITY FOR LEARNING OF CHEMICAL CONCEPTS: CASE STUDY

Abstract

In this work are presented the results obtained during the application of the ludic activity on some chemical concepts. The ludic helps students to be motivated by learning during the teaching process. Thus, students are able to assimilate abstract chemical concepts more effectively using some differentiated activity of low cost and in the classroom itself. Not needing another physical space of the school for this activity. During the application of the same, colored styrofoam balls of different sizes were required to represent the different chemical elements present in the chemical structures presented to the students. This case study happened in the second half of 2014, that is, after the teacher of the discipline presented the programmatic contents in a traditional way for the students of the first high school series of the José Bonifácio State College, a school located in the municipality of Paranaguá, Paraná, Brazil. In the first class, before starting the ludic activity, a multiple-choice evaluation was applied to evaluate how much the students remembered the contents previously developed by the teacher of the discipline in a traditional way (Annex I). In the second class, the ludic activity was applied. In the third class, another evaluation was applied, with more difficulty in the questions, to detect the level of learning of the content worked in a ludic way (Annex II). From the results obtained, in the traditional teaching method, only 7.2% of the students evaluated were able to score above the average value of the questions. Already after the application of the ludic activity, 97.3% of the students surveyed achieved a set number above the average value of the questions. This fact demonstrated the methodological efficiency used, as well as the reality that differentiated activities really motivate learning, as well as allowing students to assimilate and store this knowledge for a longer period of time.