Atividades em um clube de ciências como uma estratégia para ampliar a aprendizagem dos alunos do ensino médio

Abstract

This work evaluates the development of activities in a Science Club as a strategy to complement the learning of high school students from the elaboration of research projects to be presented in Science Fairs. The research involved students from the 1st and 2nd grades of high school at a private school, located in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul and was carried out along with the various activities developed at the school's Science Club. The theoretical reflections that guided this research were based on Vygostky's theory that emphasizes the historical-cultural process in the development of each individual, since the acquisition of new knowledge happens through intra and interpersonal relationships. In this sense, the pedagogical principle “Educating through Research” was sought as a way of relating theory to practice, aimed at the construction and reconstruction of knowledge through the development of research projects for Science Fairs in an attempt to overcome fragmentation of the disciplinary contents of the classroom. To achieve the objectives, this investigation used the qualitative approach that contemplates the educational aspects that one wishes to understand, turning its understanding to the significant and investigative elements of the research. In the activities of the Science Club, which occurred during the students' shift, guidance was given to the students involved, questionnaires were applied at three different times of the research, analysis of the logbooks and the final report. These activities carried out at the Science Club made it possible to verify changes in the students' learning of attitudinal and conceptual contents, according to the instruments applied for data collection, such as questionnaires, carried out at different times, the preparation of the final report and the preparation of the logbook. Thus, the development of guided and supervised activities carried out at the Science Club can be considered a form of lasting learning for students, as the development of projects becomes an activity that facilitates their learning.