O texto literário e as atividades experimentais: uma proposta para o ensino de ciências (Química)

Abstract

Despite technological advances and new educational proposals, the teaching of science still is marked by outdated practices of memorization and repetition, where a practice of transmission of prevails unrelated content with real situations and needy of meaning for students. Seeking to promote a contextualized teaching of science associated with life of students, this study aimed to investigate and discuss the possibilities and limitations of literary text when combined with the experimental activities and, from this discussion, constructing six interdisciplinary teaching units related to the introductory teaching of sciences (chemistry) in the 9th grade of elementary school II. The proposals that emerged through literary chronicles related to experimental activities will be offered as an educational product to be analyzed and possibly used by the teacher in the science classroom. We believe the result of this work will supporting of achieving a more democratic and citizen education, which enables the formation of the student as a social being, according to the recommendations of the new guidelines for education in the twenty-first century.