Olimpíada Brasileira de Astronomia e Astronáutica para o ensino de ciências no município de Curitiba

Abstract

This paper seeks to investigate whether the Brazilian Astronomy and Astronomy Olympics (OBA) can contribute as a teaching and learning process to two themes of Astronomy and Astronautics proposed in the curriculum of the initial years of Elementary Education of the Municipality of Curitiba, taking into account the opinion of teachers who work with this tool not day by day at school. The methodology used for this investigation was the application of a questionnaire to teachers in the municipality. The questionnaire consists of 25 questions, as they are discursive questions and was applied to 39 teachers in the municipality, covering 26 different schools that are registered on the Olympics website in 2018. This research has a qualitative methodological approach. The results found will be traced through the analysis of Bardin data to analyze the official documents of the city hall, which determine the astronomy curriculum to be worked on in our early years, as well as the interpretation of the answers provided by the teachers. Based on this research, we can conclude that Curitiba is one of the cities with great parcipation participation in OBA at the national and state level, registered since 2008 and that has been showing a gradual increase in participation. The teachers who participated in this research considered that the issues of this Olympics addressed the content required by the municipality and contribute in a playful way to the teaching and learning of Astronomy and Astronautics, we started the years as a didactic pedagogical tool.