Estudo de uma proposta para o ensino de astrobiologia no ensino médio

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the potential of an interdisciplinary didactic proposal, in light of the three pedagogical moments theory, for teaching Astrobiology in a first- year high school class at a public school in the Cascavel city, Paraná state western region. This proposal is constituted as an educational product of the National Professional Master9s Degree in Physics Teaching (MNPEF), developed at the Federal Technological University of Paraná - UTFPR, Campo Mourão campus, center 32 of MNPEF. Our research is based on the theoretical assumptions of qualitative research, descriptive type, and to gather our data we used questionnaires, documents produced by students throughout the implementation, mind maps and the researcher's field diary. Our results showed that students have a social representation for the Astrobiology term, only linked to the biology term, without establishing any interdisciplinary relationship to the term. The results also show that during the proposal implementation, the students were motivated by the theme, participating in all proposed activities, and at the process end they were able to establish some interdisciplinary relationships for the Astrobiology theme.