Jogo educacional e meio ambiente adaptação de um livro-jogo para alunos com deficiência visual

Abstract

The inclusion of people with visual impairment (blind and with low vision) on the regular education network depends on the availability of materials common to the students present at the classroom, regardless of each one’s visual capacity.Therefore, it is necessary to produce resources capable of stimulating interactions and learning. In order to motivate Natural Sciences’ construction of knowledge, it was produced and evaluated the book-game RPG Groundwater’s Contamination, adapted for visually impaired people. The evaluation was made through readings in teams and questionnaires with students from the 8th and 9th grade level in two schools. As a result, it was found that, in general, students were motivated because they seemed to enjoy themselves during discussions. The teachers interviewed considered that the book-game aroused interest. Pre-test questionnaires’ data analysis revealed that most of the students did not know how to define the concepts of agro-toxic and groundwater, and, in the post-test, it was verified an improvement on the same concepts’ definition. It is concluded that the book-game motivated research participants by contributing to the construction of the concepts addressed. Keywords: Educational games. Science teaching. Educational interaction