Laboratório de Tecnologia Educacional BIBLIOTECA DIGITAL               DE CIÊNCIAS

Basic Biochemistry subjects usually use lectures or group work dynamics like strategies of theoretical teaching. The review of important concepts is often done through classical memorization exercises in class. On the other hand, in recent years, textbooks have included CDs, which contain several animated figures, associated to hypertexts and linked to websites that enable the construction of meanings of biochemistry knowledge. In addition, learning objects in virtual environments have been developed with informative contents, and may be associated or not to challenging proposals. These could encourage students to play a more active role in their understanding of basic Biochemistry. This work is included in this context and it is a learning object, mediated by computer, which presents interactively the “Synthesis of Hepatic Glycogen by direct and indirect pathways”. Its design and creation was performed using the Adobe platform, and its contents were based on biochemical information published in scientific articles and textbooks. The aim is to provide another learning object to the educational software repository which can be useful in the study of a biochemistry topic not yet approached by this teaching strategy.