Alfabetização científica no 9° ano do ensino fundamental: produção artesanal de iogurte como tema de estudos

Abstract

SILVA, D, E, L; Scientific Literacy in the 9th year of Elementary Education: Yogurt production as a subject of study, dissertation (master's). Institute of Mathematics and Science Teaching - Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará. 2020. The following pages contain a qualitative case study planned and carried out to understand the assumptions, characteristics and evidence of Scientific Literacy in Elementary School Final Years. The study data were collected in a ninth-grade classroom (students aged 14 to 15 years) at a state public school in the city of Getúlio Vargas (Mocajubinha), located in the municipality of Terra Alta. The research data includes the recorded voice classes and the written works and / or activities produced by the students, in addition to all the didactic material provided to them during the classes. We started our research by reviewing the topic "Scientific Literacy through the production of artisanal yogurt" in the national and international literature on Didactics of Science through which we found information that allowed us to propose the structuring axes of Scientific Literacy. These axes are considered in our research for the analysis of the activities that make up a didactic sequence involving discussions in which the same topic is discussed taking into account scientific knowledge and technologies through local knowledge. The study of the specific bibliography of the area also led us to the proposition of indicators of Scientific Literacy: action and research skills that we deem necessary to be used when it is intended to build knowledge on any topic. The indicators are vital to the analysis we carry out as they can provide us with evidence of whether Scientific Literacy is in process among Elementary School Students Final Years observed in our research. After analyzing the didactic sequence, the oral arguments and the written work and / or experimental activities carried out by the students, we found quite substantial evidence that Scientific Literacy is in process for most of the students in the studied class.