Abstract

ALMEIDA, Sandra Luiza Sousa Santos de; ARAUJO, Magnólia Fernandes Florêncio de  and  SILVA, Natanael Charles da. Learning Sciences through scientific awareness texts: contributory strategies for teachers in training on the construction of environmental concepts. Educ. Form. [online]. 2022, vol.7, e8944.  Epub Mar 25, 2023. ISSN 2448-3583.  https://doi.org/10.25053/redufor.v7.e8944.

This research aimed to understand how the use of scientific texts can contribute to the understanding of concepts related to the environmental area in the teaching of Biology to high school students. The qualitative, descriptive, and participatory research took place in a state school located in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, with two groups divided into an intervention group and a participatory observation group. The results show that the intervention group presented a greater amount of basic ecological concepts and inserted them into an environmental problem, with more property and better reasoning than what was observed in the responses of the participatory observation group, meaning that there was greater construction of knowledge. Thus, the use of well-defined reading strategies and the direct participation of the teacher facilitated and encouraged the discussion of the scientific popularization text in the classes, enabling a meaningful, diversified, and dynamic learning process.

Keywords : meaningful learning; teaching Science and Biology; scientific literacy; constructivism..

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