AN EDUCATIONAL DIGITAL GAME THAT PRESENTS THE ORIGIN OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS

Abstract

The covid-19 pandemic caused changes in people's behavior in shared environments, these changes also affected the school environment. Many teachers have had to modify their classes to adapt to remote teaching and overcome the difficulties imposed by social distancing. The use of digital information and communication technologies and active methodologies has become one of the best ways to overcome some of the challenges imposed by teaching in this period. This work presents the development of the digital game “The periodic table according to cosmochemistry”, as well as the application and evaluation of the initial version with high school students. The main objective of the game is to present the origin of chemical elements within the context of astronomy. The game can facilitate the understanding of the Periodic Table, its importance in everyday life and how the evolution of the primordial Universe occurred, depending on the learning objectives, the context of the classroom and the discipline in which it was integrated. Some game elements that characterize it as an educational game were evaluated in a pilot class, the results were positive. There was a good interaction and acceptance of the students by the game and an improvement in the responses after contact with the game.