Natural selection : um serious game sobre a origem e a evolução da vida

Abstract

Technological advances and their expansion in the world dissociate young people from traditional teaching and communication as a whole. This raises the need for renewal of education through such new technologies as electronic games or games. The adoption of the potential of the games is a great tool of motivation and commitment in education and therefore this work developed an educational game or Serious Game. This game aims to help in the introduction of the natural sciences of the teaching of Biology and Cellular Evolution to students through the application of the knowledge studied in the classroom. With the aid of a review of the educational games in the academic sector and in the market a game was developed that combines the best of similar games found. To prove the usefulness of this game in education was applied a questionnaire aimed at evaluations of educational games, where the result shows that the majority of the students had fun and learned. In this way the game was able to contribute to improve the knowledge of the subject addressed. This proves that there is great educational potential in games to attract students’ attention.