A experimentação nas aulas de Biologia como promotora da alfabetização científica

Abstract

Biology teaching, as well as any other area of knowledge, requires improvement and constant creativity in order to improve learning and arouse the student interest. Due to the increasing lack of interest in science on the student part, we should provide new possibilities towards making them enjoy taking part in scientific processes, such as developing scientific thoughts, observing, trying, suggesting hypothesis and interpreting results correlating them to everyday facts thus contextualizing teaching and making it useful to life. The present research aims at implementing contextualized experimental classes that not only enable students to understand the world, but also provide a socially autonomous education addressed to shape students with scientific literacy. The research was implemented at a State school in Curitiba, State of Paraná in Brazil and covered middle school first, second and third grade students and its assessment was based on the problem question answers that allowed the researchers to relate practice to day-by-day situations, such as feeding, diseases etc. We used the qualitative-quantitative process to check answer percentage and quality before and after each class. The result showed answer differences concerning increased number of successes and improvement, as well as the relation between scientific contents and solution of day-by-day problems. As a conclusion, we inferred that the research objectives were met through the formulation of a didactic sequence comprising experimental classes that produced scientifically literate students thus improving biology teaching.