O livro-jogo como recurso didático para o ensino de biologia: uma proposta para a temática malária

Abstract

Malaria is one the diseases that changed the course of History the most, with its first appearance dating 3.000 b.C. and prevailing to this day, mainly in tropical areas of the planet. In Brazil, one of the area's most affected by the disease is the Amazonas state, that shows growing malariometric indicators and signals a need for interventional actions to control the disease. In this perspective, the school system shelters a space to promote health, in biology classes, by transmitting information and contributing to the fight against malaria. Therefore, this work presents a gamebook proposition, with malaria os its theme, that may be used as a didactic device in the teaching of biology. The research is based on a quantitative-qualitative methodology on a concomitant triangulation strategy, which had the participation of 9 students majoring in biological sciences and 24 biology teachers from the Amazonas state. It has been verified that the gamebook presented positive results in its evaluation, in addition to providing subsidies to its improvement and for future educational researches.