A plataforma Kahoot! e o uso de quiz como recurso didático no ensino de Síntese Proteica

Abstract

The teaching of themes considered to be of vast abstraction, such as Protein Synthesis, is a challenge for

teachers, since it needs pedagogical practices that bring the subject closer to the reality of students and at

the same time are effective. Emergency distance education proposed the challenge of developing activities

adapted to the virtual environment, allowing the development of new teaching methods, as is the case with

the use of gamification, which inserts games characteristics into the educational context. The objective of

this work was to report the experiences gained during the planning and socialization of a quiz, through the

platform Kahoot!, in teaching and learning the "protein synthesis" theme in the first grade of high school

of a public school in Alagoas. The game was applied in a virtual way in an online class by university

student’s participants of the National Pre-service Brazilian Teacher Education Program (PIBID) under

teacher supervision. The quiz addressed the main phenomena of protein synthesis and was answered in

real time by the students in their respective apparatuses, who in addition to answering multiple choice

questions, could also follow the ranking of scores to each question answered by all participants. The use of

the quiz has brought contributions to the training of teachers and engaged students, whereas it allowed to

realize that the use of gamification technologies in the educational context can provide better assimilation

of contents considered difficult to understand.