Formação de conceito científico utilizando o tema dos quelônios

Abstract

The pedagogical work for the formation of scientific concepts needs didactic resources capable of contributing to the assimilation of the contents. Given this, one of the alternatives is to use formal and non-formal educational spaces, exploring the resources that the Amazon provides for teaching practice. Our goal was to understand how the formation of scientific concepts occurs in students of the 4th year of elementary school using the theme of turtles. The research is qualitative, participatory and descriptive. It was developed at the Thomás Meirelles Municipal School and in the Bosque da Ciência environments of the National Research Institute of the Amazon. The research participants were 02 teachers and 58 students. Observations of teaching practice were made in the classroom, investigation of students' spontaneous knowledge and pedagogical workshops. Through this work it was possible to know: the didactic strategies used by teachers; children's spontaneous concepts of habitat, gender difference, spawning beach, eggs, chicks, and endangered species. From the workshops held in the educational spaces, indicators of the formation of scientific concepts were evidenced, which were built from the students' speech. This research signals the importance of using diversified teaching methodologies, the valorization of spontaneous concepts for the development of scientific concepts and the use of non-formal spaces by teachers to improve the process of forming scientific concepts in students. Keyword: Concept formation; Science teaching; Amazonian turtles; non-formal spaces.