Astronomia no "Aula Paraná"

Abstract

With the declaration of a national state of emergency in 2020, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, one of the measures adopted by the government of the state of Paraná, in order to control the spread of the virus, was to adhere to emergency remote teaching . In this implemented system, the Department of Education began to offer recorded classes to students from all schools in the State through the Aula Paraná application. In this perspective, the present work aimed to examine the textual and image content related to the curricular content of Astronomy in the materials made available in Aula Paraná (video class and slides) in Elementary School II. Classes Leveling 5 (2020) and classes 14, 25 and 26 (2021) were constituted as the research corpus. Data were analyzed according to the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Content Analysis. Three Data Analysis Units emerged: UA01 Characteristics of the Earth, the sun, the moon and other celestial bodies, UA02 Practical activities of sky observation, Earth and celestial phenomena and UA03 History of astronomical knowledge throughout humanity. As for the categories of analysis, it was found that the three units of analysis were present only in the video class of the Leveling 5 class, class 25 and class 26 and in the slide of class 25, evidencing a didactic organization directed to the historical understanding of the conceptual understanding and practical. UA02 was absent in the slides of Leveling 5, class 14 and 26, being present only in the slide of class 25.However, UA02 was present in all video classes, highlighting the importance of the teaching discursive practice in the course of teaching mediation, through questions, examples and practical demonstrations. UA01, on the other hand, was absent in slide and video lesson 14, showing a lack of demonstration of the differential characteristics and constituents of the Earth, sun, moon and other celestial bodies.In general, it was verified in the analyzed classes the search for the understanding of the historical construction of astronomy science.