Alfabetização científica através da experimentação investigativa em um clube de ciências

Abstract

This research presents a qualitative study, characterizing itself as exploratory descriptive research, which was planned and executed with the purpose of analyzing how the Scientific Literacy is developed among elementary students who participated in the Prof. Dr. Cristovam Wanderley Picanço Diniz, from the Federal University of Pará-Campus Castanhal. This research emerged from the researcher 's questions about how science education was developed among students who participated in non - formal spaces of science teaching. Our main theoretical references are Sasseron (2008), Carvalho et al (2009), Carvalho (2013) and Malheiro (2016). As instruments, we use video recordings, photography, logbook and audio recordings. The participants were four students of the fifth grade and four students of the 6th grade. During the analyzed episodes we can observe how the manifestation of the indicators proposed by Sasseron (2008) occurred. The indicators of Scientific Literacy were evidenced in the students' discourses, being considered important for analysis of this study. We realized that they helped to understand how the process of Scientific Literacy developed, as we set out to analyze how the students dedicated themselves in the construction of their knowledge. We observed that the indicators only develop during the course of the investigative activity. However, we found that other skills may emerge during the course of the activity, which are related to student behavior and what they can do during the investigation. In the face of the investigative sequence, we realize how important it is to encourage students to get along with their content, to have more autonomy, to be creative, to get a dialogue and to expose their ideas about what they are observing. For, we note that this incentive is fundamental for the formation of citizens who know how to understand the phenomena that occur around them, in addition, it allows them intellectual advances.