Vida em uma gota de água: uma proposta metodológica para o ensino da biologia aquática

Abstract

Practical lessons are highly relevant for science, since it has a significant contribution to Environmental Sciences teaching and allows the insertion of themes like biodiversity and the importance of the environment for the organisms. This masters thesis aims to clarify the biodiversity within a water droplet, through the development of a Teaching Sequence (TS) with theoryclasses on video, a virtual track at the Utinga state Park (Belém - PA) and video practical lessons, in which water samples were collected for experimentation andobservation of living microrganisms. Three classes of 29 students from the 6° year of the basic education participated at this TS, all from the Military College of Belém.The students received a questionarie with open and closed questions about the aquatic environment and its biodiversity beforeand after the TS application, to avail the knowledge transfer on the topic. Through the SD, the students could see a large diversity of life forms existing on a droplet of water, so they could learn about the dimensions of life existing on continental water ecosystems and understang the necessity to care and mantain the environment. The result was positive, since most of the students understood the presence of life in a single water droplet, and the need to care for the preservation of aquatic environments. This study generated a product, a TS named ‗Bioaquatic didactic agenda‘, which details all the steps of the sequence. The dissertation emphatized the importance of practical lessons since the Basic Education level, as a strategy for the teaching of Environmental Sciences, and to colaborate to the developmental process, aiding knowledged to the graduation of conscious, active individuals on the conservation of the environment.