Vida de inseto: uma proposta pedagógica para o ensino de entomologia no ensino médio utilizando plataformas digitais

Abstract

Cultural and social changes influence the educational scenario and suggest modifications in the teacher's pedagogical practice in the classroom. From a constructivist perspective, the use of active methodologies can stimulate the formation of an autonomous, critical, creative and curious young person about the phenomena that occur around them beyond the teacher's perspective in the classroom. Our hypothesis is that the use of active methodology will reflect in a significant increase in the performance of students in Biology classes. Therefore, the present work aimed to verify the efficiency of active methodologies from the use of a smartphone application in the teaching of Biology in high school. The research was developed with high school students at Colégio Estadual Professor João Costa, Aracaju/SE. The project was carried out as follows: bibliographic review; research on digital tools, software and applications that are free, accessible and that can be used as a platform for building and hosting an application for smartphones with contents related to Insecta Class; application building; planning, preparation and application of a didactic sequence; creation of a booklet containing the step by step of how the application was built, so that a fellow teacher, from any area of knowledge, can build their own application; evaluation of participating students; collection and analysis of the data obtained. To assess the students' performance throughout the activities, a pre-test and a post-test questionnaire were used, the logbook was also used, where the students' responses were observed in relation to the interest shown in learning the topic and their engagement in the use of these teaching-learning methods. Based on the observed data, it can be concluded that: the students showed engagement in carrying out the suggested activities; the developed application proved to be efficient in the use of active methodologies from its use with high school students, positively reflecting on the students' academic performance.