Gamification as a engagement strategy for the practice of environmental education

This article presents the use of Gamification as an important strategy for the engagement of actions for Environmental Education (EE). It was used a social network called MEIO, which had the participation of students from the Institute Federal of Piaui campus Paulistana. The research sought to understand students engagement during the use of the MEIO through an experimental work, which presented results that enabled the students understanding of the gamified elements, across qualitative and quantitative statistical analyzes, obtained through a questionnaire before of the experiment and of the metrics of engagement found in the students after the experiment. The results brought several contributions, notes and reflections on the use of Gamification in EE and also challenges that seek higher engagement results than the research.