A tecnologia como projeto de trabalho: estratégia de ensino e de aprendizagem de ciências no 9º ano do ensino fundamental

Abstract

The masters dissertation deals with the development of a research, organised around the technology theme, with the planning of contextualized actions that associate science content with the experiences and the interests of students in the ninth grade of elementary School, State public of the municipality of Dom Pedrito. The objective of the research, when developing a work project (HERNÁNDEZ, 1998), considering the technology as a study object and as a methodological teaching strategy were organised on four axes: biotechnology, junk e-mail, traveling in space and radioactivity, Being used a blog as a didactic resource for the development of activities. This study is based theoretically in the historical-cultural perspective (Vygotsky, 2008), considering clues or evidence demonstrating students learning. The research results were analysed with the use of microgenetic analysis, considered as material for analysis, lessons in the teacher's diary records, the transcripts of questionnaires performed with pupils throughout the lessons, and the recordings in Audio of the dialogues of the students and a researcher teacher. As the main results of the development of the work project, this has enabled a reflection on the teaching of sciences, from the observation of a greater interest and motivation of the students for the study of Sciences, the development of possible conceptual relationships, Attitudinal traits and procedural in the production of school knowledge, learning and development of students, as well as the perception of conceptual elaboration by students of subjects worked on thematic axes, enabling the construction of knowledge School from the interaction of scientific and everyday knowledge