Fisio card game: an educational game for physiology teaching in basic education

The physiology teaching struggles in two major points: 1. the study of biological systems in fragmented pieces, making harder to build an integrated systemic and functioning view of the organism; and 2. the difficulty presented by students in memorizing anatomic structures and to match them with their functions. These two aspects decrease students' interest in learning physiology subjects, and in this context we present the Fisio card game. This game consist in grouping cards showing physiological relationship, aiming to enhance the integrated view among biological systems, and to assist the memorization definitions related to this content. Fisio card game was field tested with senior high school students' who answered a survey about how the game can help these two points already mentioned, being a facilitator in the teaching/learning process to engage students.