The use of Virtual Laboratory as a Strategy for the Investigative Approach in Biology Teaching

• Main Author: Gonçalves Brito de Arruda, Silvana
• Publication Date: 2021
• Other Authors: Oliveira, Francisco de Assis José de, Cavalcante Lima, Kênio Erithon
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Tear: Revista de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia
• Download full: https://periodicos.ifrs.edu.br/index.php/tear/article/view/5297

Abstract: There is a growing need to include Digital Information and Communication Technologies into pedagogical practices to serve an increasingly technological generation of young people. In this sense, the present study aimed to evaluate, in an investigative perspective, the applicability of virtual laboratory in an Interactive Didactic Sequence (IDS) for the study of Biochemistry in the context of obesity. The methodological proposal adopted was based on both the pedagogical intervention of virtual laboratory and on case studies applied in an Interactive Didactic Sequence on the topic of obesity with first year high school students. The results were constructed as a consequence of case studies, investigations, simulations, BMI calculations and were confirmed by comparing the answers of the questionnaires at the beginning and at the end of the IDS. The findings showed that the use of this technological tool with simulations, allowed students to develop stages of an investigative process and better understanding the contents covered, contributing to the promotion of new learning, which confirms the importance of educational technologies in the teaching-learning process of biological knowledge. Keywords: Teaching by Research. Virtual Simulations. Pedagogical Strategy. Digital Technologies