A educação de jovens e adultos e o ensino de ciências naturais: contribuições da utilização dos conceitos unificadores

Abstract

This essay aims to propose strategies that allow the teaching of the three science content of the third phase of the EJA from elementary school, focusing on a more integrated teaching method, dealing with the science content in a more contextualized way. The research is characterized as qualitative and participative, with the target audience a group of eighteen students from the 3rd phase of adult education at a public school in the city of Curitiba / PR. This paper presents the analysis of this approach on the concept of energy as an integrating concept, facilitating the learning process of the other content from the 3rd phase, making the content more cohesive and interconnected. To develop these activities the emphasis was on the unifying concepts that were directly or indirectly present in schools. So the students could make connections between the studied content, the teaching of science became more contextualized and less fragmented.