Work-energy principle with an educational game: Capture the energy!

İngilizce (OpenAlex)

Game is an intelligence-building pastime based on certain rules.Every child likes to play games.For this reason, the game has been integrated into education in the form of educational games.Educational games are played for students to eliminate prejudices about not being able to learn in the science course and for personal development to progress in a healthy way.In this study, an educational game activity was designed to teach the concepts in the 'work-energy principle' topic of the 'Force and Energy' unit in the 7 th grade science curriculum.In this designed game, it is planned to teach abstract concepts in the subject in a meaningful and permanent way.In the research, it was intended to obtain the views of science teachers about the game called "Catch the Energy!" and to reveal what the students who played the game learned.Within the frame of this purpose, the study was performed with the phenomenology design, which is among the qualitative research methods.The game was videotaped while being played by eight students in two teams in a private secondary school affiliated to Amasya Provincial Directorate of National Education, and three participating teachers were allowed to watch the game.The opinions obtained from the teachers through semi-structured interviews and the data obtained from the students' as written documents were analyzed by descriptive analysis.From the data obtained, it was concluded that the designed educational game contributed to the students to learn the abstract concepts in the related subject in a meaningful way and that the game met the outcome.At the result of the study, educators were given suggestions such as developing games suitable for the learning outcomes in science teaching and enriching the teaching.