“Geo Go”: uma estratégia didática de gamificação no ensino de geografia nos anos finais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

This paper presents a didactic proposal based on active learning methodologies, focusing on the application of gamification as a pedagogical tool for teaching Geography in Elementary School. The main product of this proposal is Geo Go, an educational card game designed to promote meaningful learning through playfulness, interaction, and healthy competition. Inspired by strategy games, Geo Go was developed based on skills from the Brazilian National Common Curricular Base (BNCC) and covers content related to Brazilian Geography. In its dynamics, the game mobilizes fundamental concepts of the discipline — such as region, territory, and landscape — which permeate the approach to the contents, although the cards themselves are centered on aspects of Brazilian Geography. Thus, Geo Go contributes, above all, to the understanding of contents of Brazilian Geography teaching, while encouraging student protagonism, decision-making, and critical thinking, fostering engagement and knowledge consolidation.