Conceptual Map: An Approach for the Teaching of the Respiratory System Physiology

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Jucelaine Haas Barth da
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Haida, Kimiyo Shimomura, Costa, Olmiro Nascimento Barth da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde e Pesquisa (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unicesumar.edu.br/index.php/saudpesq/article/view/1168
• topic: Mapa Conceitual; Sistema Respiratório; Fisiologia; Ensino Médio; Conceptual Maps; Respiratory System; Physiology; High School.

Conceptual maps are diagrams that represent relations among concepts in a hierarchic way. The Biology subject presents many concepts that are difficult for the students to assimilate. Therefore, the present work aimed at presenting a model of conceptual map about the respiratory system, a topic taught at high school, and at evaluating the subject learned by the students while using it as study tool. After the class about the physiology of the respiratory system, a questionary with 5 questions was given to two groups of high school students from a private school in Cascavel, PR, Brazil. After that, a conceptual map about the subject was distributed and it was explained how to fill in the blanks. The corrections were made and the questionary was applied once again. The percentage of correct answers was verified from both questionaries. On both groups there was a significant increase of the percentage of right answers after filling in the conceptual map (group 1, 58% to 76%; group 2, 64% to 88,5%), showing that this is a useful tool for high school students to internalize the physiology of the respiratory system.