Cinema e ensino: a produção de cinema de animação para o ensino de ciências por meio do enfoque Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS)

Abstract

This paper presents the results the study developed with students of the secondary education in a group of the 7th grade of a public school in São João do Triunfo - PR, Brazil, in relation to the theme Cinema and Teaching. The aim of of the research was to verify the contributions of teaching Science (content virus and bacteria) in a STS approach - Science, Technology and Society, aiming at the Scientific and Technological Literacy, using as a didactic strategy the production of Animation Cinema with the Stop Motion technique. Stop Motion is an animation process where frame-by-frame capture is performed using a camera and a light source. The methodological approach was qualitative of a descriptive nature with participant observation. During the study the students and the classroom science teacher participated in science classes with a STS approach, Research on the topics covered and workshops for the production of videos.The students created characters from materials like modeling mass, drawings, magazine clippings and small objects, to give life and movement in the animations.The main authors that base this study are: Lorenzetti (2000), Gowdak, Martins (2015), Bazzo (2014), Silveira (2005), Santos and Auler (2011), Chassot (2011), Delizoicov (2015), Fresquet (2013) and Duarte (2009). At the end of the study, it was observed that the research brought contributions to Science Education and the promotion of Scientific and Technological Literacy. The students demonstrated more confidence to talk about the topic addressed, showing interest and motivation. It was also noticed that the students analyzed the subjects discussed during the science classes in a more critical way, questioning and relating the content studied with their own lives. Students are concerned with issues such as: the emergence of vaccines, diseases neglected in the country, bacteria in the production of plastic, foods that help immunity of the body, among other issues of relevance to the process of reflection and development of the critical sense of the same.