Gamifying Environmental Education: A Primary School Perspective Through a Serious Game

Edson Kirschhof, Alexandre Becker, Glênio Descovi, Alencar Machado, Vinícius Maran

2024

Abstract

Environmental education holds significant importance for society, serving as a means to impart to new generations the principles of living in harmony with nature and cultivating social, moral, and ethical values. Research in this domain has consistently shown that the early incorporation of environmental education can yield benefits for individuals and has a lifelong impact. Yet environmental education researchers and practi-tioners identify early childhood, defined as ages birth to eight, as a particularly crucial time for developing environmental literacy. This paper presents the creation of a serious game designed to support environmental education in the early stages of elementary school. The developed game addresses the current trends of mobile and flexible learning, recognizing the necessity for engaging and challenging materials tailored for children. Through the assessment of the game, involving 71 users, it became evident that the developed game played a constructive role in the teaching-learning process. The evaluation encompassed aspects such as usability, accessibility, playfulness, satisfaction, and knowledge expansion, revealing the positive impact of the game on these dimensions.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kirschhof E., Becker A., Descovi G., Machado A. and Maran V. (2024). Gamifying Environmental Education: A Primary School Perspective Through a Serious Game. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU; ISBN 978-989-758-697-2, SciTePress, pages 349-360. DOI: 10.5220/0012617000003693

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu24,
author={Edson Kirschhof and Alexandre Becker and Glênio Descovi and Alencar Machado and Vinícius Maran},
title={Gamifying Environmental Education: A Primary School Perspective Through a Serious Game},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU},
year={2024},
pages={349-360},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012617000003693},
isbn={978-989-758-697-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU
TI - Gamifying Environmental Education: A Primary School Perspective Through a Serious Game
SN - 978-989-758-697-2
AU - Kirschhof E.
AU - Becker A.
AU - Descovi G.
AU - Machado A.
AU - Maran V.
PY - 2024
SP - 349
EP - 360
DO - 10.5220/0012617000003693
PB - SciTePress