LO LÚDICRO COMO ESTRATEGIA DIDÁCTICA PARA EL APRENDIZAJE DE LAS FUNCIONES DE QUÍMICA INORGÁNICA EN LA ENSEÑANZA MEDIA EN FEIRA DE SANTANA, BRASIL

Abstract

The traditional way of teaching chemistry in a secondary school in Brazil hasn’t let students to interact with his study object and to see this subject as a very difficult one, which force them to memorize formulas, concepts, reactions and compound names without having any kind of pleasure in studding. This work had as a purpose to help secondary students of Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil, to study inorganic chemistry functions using games as a pedagogic tool, doing association with three well-known games: bingo, domino and the fourthly game. The "Bingo Químico" begins the sequence doing correlation
between names and formulas; el domino works the association between formula and chemistry function; the fourthly game helps people to identify compounds that belong of the same chemistry function. Pilot tests were done that gave us the information that those games suit student and teacher interaction, arouse interest. Although they don’t give the complete knowledge about inorganic chemistry functions, they introduce the chemistry world of formulas and names in a pleasure way, doing that its  studies could be made in groups, making easy its learned, stimulating cooperation work, doing knowledge and moral values socialization.
Keywords: chemistry games, pedagogic games, inorganic functions.