Contribuições de projetos integrados na área das ciências da natureza à alfabetização científica de estudantes do ensino médio

• Autor(a) principal: Duso, Leandro
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional PUCRS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/2928
• topic: EDUCAÇÃO; CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA; CIÊNCIA - ENSINO MÉDIO; APRENDIZAGEM

This thesis presents a study that aimed to understand the use of integrated projects in the area of Nature Sciences, Mathematics and their technologies. The central objective was to evaluate how this approach contributes to the scientific literacy of students facing the new social and environmental challenges, based on a case study. The integrated project on climate change was developed in a class of second year of a private college and Technical High School. The information was obtained by means of descriptive and memorial activities for students, such as reports and multimedia presentations, and analyzed by the method of textual analysis, which were organized in the following categories: the previous ideas of students on the theme Global Warming; the scientific concepts that students use to problem-solve the situations proposed; the involvement of students in project work through the process of its implementation; contributions from an integrated project on global warming to develop awareness of current issues in students. The interpretations had been subsidized in interlocutions that covered theoretical studies related to interdisciplinary, environmental issues, focus on science, technology and society (STS) and meaningful learning. The approach was primarily qualitative and descriptive, consistent with an historical narrative research-. It was noted the involvement of students in the construction of knowledge and the search for solutions of problem-situations, and positive changes in relation to everyday attitudes and increased motivation and involvement in the learning process.