USE OF GAMES ON BENTHONIC MACROINVERTEBRATES AS WATER QUALITY BIOINDICATORS IN BIOLOGY TEACHING.
pedagogical games; investigative teaching; benthos; invertebrates; biotic indicators; environmental bioindicators.
Scientific knowledge is being popularized in contemporary society as a result of technological and scientific development obtained in recent decades. With the incorporation of this knowledge into social daily life, the need to know and understand academic concepts and use them in problem solving arises. To perform this important function, investigative teaching in Biology requires pedagogical practices that arouse the interest, curiosity, participation, and autonomy of students, in a pleasant way and that are contextualized with their experiences. Students are faced with several problem situations involving, directly or indirectly, natural resources and most of the time they do not arouse interest in proposing and executing possible solutions. This theme is highly complex and is generally addressed by schools through traditional teaching practices that do not encourage student participation. Faced with the need to diversify teaching strategies in Biology, the project aimed to producepedagogical games and apply them as a subsidy for the perception of students' learning about benthic macroinvertebrates as bioindicators of water quality. It was developed with 28 studentsfrom the third grade of high school at the Osório Raimundo de Lima Full-Time Teaching Center, located in the city of Iporá - GO. Its methodological practice consists of bibliographic research, production and use of pedagogical games and data collection through the application of a questionnaire. As a final result, concrete didactic materials were developed in the form of games, with different rules and design, as a result of the use of active methodologies, the didactic sequence and consequently acquisition of the expected objectives.