Construção de ecossistemas no ambiente escolar por meio de uma unidade de ensino potencialmente significativa

Abstract

In High School, the presence of descriptive, decontextualized and information-based science teaching is evident, distancing students from current proposals that involve scientific education that favors the necessary conditions for living in society. Particularly in the aspects related to the study of Ecology contents, there is a lack of didactic resources that relate theoretical contents to observable natural phenomena. Regarding the study of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems focused on the environmental issue, the problem that must be answered through this research was: How does the construction of artificial ecosystems in the school environment, based on a potentially significant teaching unit, high school students to learn about key ecosystem-related issues and become critical and reflective citizens about their individual and collective responsibilities to environmental issues? From this problematic, the general objective of the research was to arouse interest in ecosystems and the understanding of the ecological factors that condition existence and the distribution of life on Earth through a potentially meaningful teaching unit. The evaluation was carried out in a progressive and continuous way. The first form of evaluation of the project was the analysis of the survey questionnaire that was carried out as an integral part of the first phase of the UEP'S. Throughout the development of the UEP'S, students were evaluated in their learning construction at each stage, always having as teaching strategy the creation of conceptual maps, representation of ecosystems in the form of drawings and the very construction of miniature ecosystems in the school environment.