KNOWING THE SUBATOMIC PARTICLES: TRAVELING TO THE INVISIBLE
Physics education, Standard template, Board game
Physics is a very present science in our daily lives. Even so, teaching this discipline is not as trivial as it seems. There are several difficulties encountered by the teacher in his teaching practice, among them is the ability to associate his classes with the dynamism of the current society. Thinking about it, these were the motivations for creating a board game - "Knowing the Subatomic Particles: Traveling to the Unseen" - with the primary goal of analyzing and perfecting gameplay in high school students. Applied in principle at the João Tibúrcio State School of the regular school network located in the municipality of Goianinha in Rio Grande do Norte. Aiming the possibility of learning, due to its use in a playful and dynamic way, on concepts of the standard model of the particles. In this work will be made the presentation of the product and how it was used in its application. The comparison between the Pre and the post test will also be made through quantitative analysis. We verify students improve the concepts of subatomic particles after the application of the board game, identifying some of the elementary particles and the existence of fundamental forces. Because of this, we have obtained many positive reports of the use of the educational product through the students, and that it was an incentive to search for more information on the subject in other means of access to knowledge. For this reason it is expected that the work will serve as a parameter for the application of the game in other environments so that more and more people have access to the particle physics contente.