Alternative microscope for serial production for practical work with elementary school students

• Autor(a) principal: Putzke, Jair
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Possati, Carine Furlan, Conrad, Bruno Cardoso, Putzke, Marisa Terezinha Lopes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Monografias Ambientais
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/remoa/article/view/43396
• topic: Students; Science; Microscope; Prototypes; Alunos; Ciência; Microscopia; Protótipos

The teaching of life sciences in elementary school faces a major problem: the lack of materials for laboratory practice. This lack of equipment results in many cases in the transformation of the class into theoretical information routines, discouraging the student to care for nature. The sense of admiration that should be worked with at this level of education is now neglected and the trainee is enchanted with technology and not dedicated to caring for nature. Taking the student to a set of activities that return his taste for nature, especially with the use of alternative microscopy was the objective of the present work. Using alternative materials, especially magnifying glasses from various equipment, three alternative microscopes were assembled, which were tested and worked with teachers of a school to verify their potential use in class. The assembled equipment proved to be efficient for microscopic studies, especially to arouse the student's interest in the subject, with the possibility of even having his own equipment at home and continuing to develop a sense of charm for nature. The increase achieved was 300 times. Possible activity kits were assembled, which are presented in the form of routine work with a microscopy laboratory. The evaluation of the equipment allows the possibility of working disciplines such as biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics in an interdisciplinary manner.