O lúdico como ferramenta didática de ensino para a prevenção da leishmaniose visceral no município de Uruguaiana

Abstract

Given the current scenario of environmental conditions globally, awareness is growing in search of a new vision about the participation of the human being in caring for the environment in which he is inserted. More and more early, the child has been stimulated about this question, mainly in the school environment. The growing importance on the subject causes the theme "Environmental education" to be highlighted in educational institutions, in order to transforming the way students deal with such a question. The objective of this work is to develop a ludic tool, educational such as that collaborate with learning in the classroom, became it more interactive and participatory, and still, collaborate with the environment through the students ' knowledge, contributing to environmental education within the context of citizenship linked to the theme "Visceral leishmaniasis". To construct this goal, we accomplished the reading materials that address the theme described above, within a national, regional and local scope. Thus, it was possible the application of 40 (forty) objective questions, which were able to elucidate the relevant aspects of the disease. The evaluation of the game, which works as an application for mobile phones, was performed with an audience of 12 (twelve) undergraduate and graduate students from Unipampa, 10 (ten) elementary school teachers and 10 (ten) individuals from the external community to the academic environment. The participants evaluated the gameplay, considering the design, the graphics and, mainly, the interface, communication between two distinct parts, the application and the user. As results we obtained that most of the participants consider "excellent" or "very good" the evaluation requirements of the application, mainly its gameplay. Thus, it was reached the objective for which the same it was developed, became it possible to useful it as the object of a future evaluation, this time, as a didactic tool in the teaching-learning process.