Alfabetizar com e para a ciência na educação infantil: uma proposta a partir da cultura material com o filtro de barro

Abstract

Scientific Literacy has been developed in Science classes with the aim of understanding and appropriating scientific knowledge. In Early Childhood Education classes, specific teacher training is required, as pedagogical practices require creativity, playfulness and experiments that help work on cognition, motor skills, orality and interaction, contributing to the development of children's skills and competences. With the intention of contributing to Scientific Literacy in Early Childhood Education, we developed a inquiry-based lesson plan based on Material Culture studies, using the Clay Filter object. This theme allows exploring sociocultural themes in an interdisciplinary approach. Therefore, we adopted the research question: how can a inquiry-based lesson plan, in an interdisciplinary approach using Material Culture, promote Scientific Literacy in Early Childhood Education classes? From the research question, we listed as general objective: to analyze the potential of a inquiry-based lesson plan based on Material Culture for the process of teaching children to read and write in Early Childhood Education. The research is characterized as qualitative and can be classified as exploratory of the Pedagogical Intervention type, counting on three moments: planning, when the lesson plan on Water was created; the implementation, when teachers of Early Childhood Education validated the lesson plan; and, finally, the evaluation carried out by the analysis using the Diagnostic Elements of Science Teaching by Investigation tool (DEEnCI) to verify the potential of the lesson plan for the promotion of Scientific Literacy. The results indicate that the lesson plan developed includes several elements of inquiry-based Science Teaching, presenting potentialities for the promotion of Scientific Literacy in an investigative perspective in Early Childhood Education. We believe that this proposal of lesson plan and its correspondente Educational Product, allows to promote Scientific Literacy in a playful.