PROTOZOA, “VILLAIN OR GOOD” ORGANISM? ITS ECOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE IN ECOSYSTEMS: AN INCLUSIVE PROPOSAL FOR SCIENCE CLASSES

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Josefa Silva dos
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Hardoim, Edna Lopes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Reamec
• Texto Completo: https://periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/ojs/index.php/reamec/article/view/11493
• topic: Aprendizagem ativa; Aprendizagem colaborativa; STEAM; Active learning; Collaborative learning; STEAM education model; Aprendizaje activo; Aprendizaje colaborativo; STEAM

This research brings reflections on how the group of free-living protozoa in aquatic environments, even with technological advances and research, is still neglected in ecological terms, being presented in textbooks and by most teachers as villainous organisms despite having different functions in aquatic ecosystems, as regulators of algae and bacterial populations acting directly on the micro-chains of these environments. Our research problem was to verify if the methodological approaches used in Science / Biology classes help students to reflect on the ecological function of protozoa. The objectives that guided this research were: to evaluate the form of protozoan approaches in the classroom; and test innovative and inclusive teaching methods for understanding the ecological role of protozoa. Along the methodological path, active methods such as collaborative learning and an innovative approach were tested – the STEAM model of education –, in addition to the development of an educational product in the form of Didactic Sequence (SD), which aims to contribute to the teaching and learning process of students Elementary School II. As a result of this research, we highlight that student like the discipline of Science, and that before testing the Educational Product, students did not know who the protozoa were, and that some free-living protozoa have an ecological function.