Histórias em quadrinhos no ensino de invertebrados marinhos a luz da Teoria da Aprendizagem Significativa

Abstract

The zoology teaching, particularly marine invertebrates, for elementary school students should include appropriate pedagogical practices to local realities, aimed at imparting knowledge, which requires different strategies to allow the interior of the students understanding of the content as a whole. The objective of this dissertation was based on using comics in teaching marine invertebrates, to promote meaningful learning with the students of elementary school II. Participants of this research were 7th graders from a public school in Santana do Ipanema, Alagoas inside. It was decided to perform three steps in this study. Initially, it was found the students' prior knowledge by applying an objective questionnaire. In the second stage a dialogic lecture was held and subsequently presented a comic on marine invertebrates. During these processes the students answered two multiple choice questionnaires for recording content absorbed. Regarding the first article the results showed that the students had some prior knowledge of zoology content of marine invertebrates in general obtained from the media. In the second article results show that the overall mean score, considering the 10 questions of marine invertebrates in the first questionnaire was 40.7% and the second questionnaire it was found expansion of the results with the average of 60.1% of hits. Thus, it was found that use comic as an alternative to address the lack of context on marine invertebrates among students in the interior of lagoas was very positive.