A construção do jogo "Explorando a Paisagem": contribuições para o ensino de geografia

Abstract

This study aims the creation of the game entitled “Explorando a Paisagem” and its contributions to geography teaching. Its proposal is a result of teaching practices developed in the 6th grade of elementary school and constitutes itself in an innovative didactic recourse in teaching process and learning of geographic science. The theoretical assumptions which involves the construction of this study and the game are based in authors that discusses the cartographic alphabetization process, the concept of landscape and its transformations through time, as well as it uses discussions about the theory of Cognitive Learning, the theory of Multiple Intelligences and studies about the importance of using games as important didactical recourses in geography teaching. Regarding methodological procedures, the study and the game were preceded by bibliographic researches, observations of geography classes in the 6th grade of Ensino Fundamental in a state public school, in the city of Natal/RN, as well as the application of diagnostic questionnaires to the student public, which guided the creative process of the recourse. This way, we propose that the game can serve as an important learning tool to geographic science teaching, assisting teachers and students in their conceptual construction and to develop their ability to interpret the diverse everyday phenomena. Similarly, we concluded the game can be utilized by teachers in different levels of education, bringing contributions to the formation of geographical reasoning.