Ensino de ciências por meio da aprendizagem baseada em problemas: contribuições para o ensino da temática saúde pública

Abstract

This work consists in the application of the PBL method to find out how it can contribute to the development of skills and competences related to the subject "public health". For such, a didactic sequence about sanitation was developed with first-year high school students at a private school from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. The didactic sequence is based on Paulo Freire's pedagogy and the learning objectives were determined based on the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy in accordance with the abilities and competences established by the BNCC. The students were divided in tutorial groups and accompanied by a tutor every week. Each group produced a registration form every week to keep up with the evolution of the problem resolution. And each student answered a formative evaluation form every week to evaluate the student's engagement. The results are based on the productions of eleven groups. Most groups fully developed most of the proposed learning objectives. Such results indicate that the PBL method can significantly contribute to the teaching of public health in the Biology curriculum component in high school. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]