A importância das concepções alternativas na apropriação do conhecimento a aplicação no estudo de bactérias no ensino fundamental e suas implicações para a saúde humana

Abstract

The identification of alternative concepts of students is important, because they are considered products of imaginative efforts of children to describe and explain the physical world around them. Such conceptions should be regarded as personal constructions, that the teacher has a duty to seek to know, understand, and appreciate to decide what to do and how to do your teaching, along the study of a topic. Taking this for basis, this work aims to identify the alternative conceptions on the theme: bacteria in twenty-five sixth grade students from a public school in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina. The research is qualitative nature and the instrument for data collection consists of a questionnaire where the results obtained were tabulated. In conclusion, to understand how the quotidian and the media influence in conceptions of children can be a decisive factor in the conceptions of science by children. Must be goal of professor to use teaching strategies that allow to identifying the alternative concepts of students, and to think in learning activities that can establish significant relationships between conceptions of students and the scientific knowledge. Keywords: Bacteria. Science Teaching. Alternative Conceptions. Human Health.