Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.32633/eb.4.8
Application of the role play game in the educational theme “The simplest forms of life“
Dubravka Karakaš
; Elementary school Sesvete, Ivana Gorana Kovačića 19, 10360 Sesvete
Valerija Begić
; Elementary school Sesvetski Kraljevec, Školska 10, 10 000 Zagreb
Abstract
Viruses as the simplest forms of life on Earth are subjects that are very interesting to the students, but also very abstract. Given that human diseases that viruses cause is close to the pupils based solely on their experience, it is possible to prepare a simulation of virus disease spread along with role play and simulation of process flow along with paper-cut elements. As it is desirable to devise a simulation in which the main actors of a person are close to the students, in this example for teaching there is a planned birthday party to which all classmates are invited. Students as active participants responded positively to this type of work, and some students encountered difficulties in calculating infection rates and graphing data obtained by virus spread simulation as well as explaining the results that were read out of the graph.
Keywords
pupils aged 13 and 14; role play; virus; epidemic; Vogralik's chain
Hrčak ID:
216500
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Publication date:
28.12.2018.
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