THE CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION OF THE GAME "EXPEDITION BY POTIGUAR RELIEF": A CONTRIBUTION TO THE EDUCATION OF SCHOOL GEOMORPHOLOGY
Game; Skills; Abilities; Teaching; Learning.
The present study aims to present and analyze the process of construction and application of the game "Expedition by the Potiguar Relief", as well as its contributions to the development of skills and abilities that facilitate the teaching and learning of Geography in High School. The proposal of construction and application of said game, developed as a didactic resource, to approach the theme related to the relief of Rio Grande do Norte, comes from observations and practices experienced teachers and was based on the theoretical and methodological conceptions of Significant Learning Theory and by the experiences of other theorists who discuss the teaching-learning process, the use of didactic games and the teaching of Geography. In relation to the methodological procedures, the structuring and the applications of the game were preceded and subsidized by bibliographical researches and the realization of observations and expositive dialogues classes in two high school classes of a state public school in the city of Natal/RN. After the applications, the data obtained were systematized according to the impressions of the teacher and the students, allowing to verify and analyze the potential contributions of the game to the teaching-learning process in Geography. Thus, based on results and experiences during the applications, we consider that the game "Expedition through the Potiguar Relief" has shown to be a collaborative and immersive didactic resource, which enables the teacher to direct the learning process and to measure, through the development of skills and skills, the assimilation of the geographical knowledge by the students.