Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: TAIRONE SAMUEL ALMEIDA DO NASCIMENTO

THE CELL STUDY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: A RESEARCH TEACHING PROPOSAL IN THE 7Es MODEL

Science teaching. Investigative learning. Scientific literacy. Cytology.

 Broad access to information, interactivity provided by technologies and expression of opinions are aspects that characterize the reality of students. In this scenario, it is necessary to prepare the student to make him understand and intervene responsibly in his reality and, therefore, using inquiry-based teaching as a teaching approach is essential to meet this demand. This work aims to evaluate the contributions of this approach in the 7Es model, combined with technological resources, for learning about cell contents and for scientific literacy. For this, a sequence on the study of the cell was elaborated and applied, generating as an educational product an instructional guide of didactic support to the teacher. The investigation was carried out with 33 students from the 6th year of elementary school at a private school in Natal (RN) and the data were collected from the activities used in the classes, such as a laboratory practice script, results communication products and a questionnaire. . Based on these data, in general, it can be pointed out that the students were able to understand the basic cell structure and physiology and its diversity, developing various scientific literacy skills, such as the perception of science and its reverberations in their reality, discursive interactions for decision making, argumentation, autonomy and criticality to seek information, build explanations and share them.