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Chemistry in the Sciences of the Early Years: an investigative teaching proposal involving the ownership of materials in a 2nd year elementary school class

Early Years. Investigative Teaching Sequence. Chemistry Teaching. Ownership of materials.

When dealing with the Teaching of Sciences with an investigative character, we start from the idea of a Teaching of Sciences that offers the student conditions and referrals that provide his interaction with scientific knowledge, so that from this approach of the field of investigation, it is possible to construction of this scientific field, considering the interactions with the world and its transformations, an element of great interest for the area of Science Teaching. When thinking about the planning of Science classes, it is important to reflect on the greater objective, which is the promotion of Scientific Literacy among students. In this way, the investigation consisted in the elaboration of an Investigative Teaching Sequence (SEI), entitled “Inventions for All Sides “Objects and Materials”, developed for a group of 2nd year of Fundamental of the municipal network of Igaci-AL. The objective is to analyze the contributions of an investigative teaching sequence, involving the ownership of materials, for the promotion of Scientific Literacy among students in the 2nd year of elementary school. In order to conduct the research, the starting point was the following problem: What are the contributions of an investigative teaching sequence, involving the ownership of materials, for the promotion of Scientific Literacy of students in the 2nd year of elementary school? Thus, through the qualitative approach, the methodological assumptions that directed to application research were brought. The development of this didactic sequence being the main element of data collection. The data will be evaluated considering the Scientific Literacy Indicators: Articulate ideas; Investigate; To argue; Read in Science; Writing in Science; Problematize; To create; Acting, Pizarro (2014). We can infer from the results obtained that the use of Children's Literature as a pedagogical resource in teaching promotes the inclusion of students in scientific culture. The intention of using an episode of Monteiro Lobato's work "History of Inventions" was due to the context in which it is presented to the public, with the purpose of expressing and presenting the relevance of the evolution of some objects over time, through of this pedagogical resource. This theme is punctuated by the National Common Curricular Base (2017) through the curricular component of natural sciences, which includes the thematic unit: Matter and Energy. It is possible to observe that some of the skills scored for this area are directly related to Chemistry contents that are embedded within the objects of knowledge of this science and are directly linked to properties and uses of materials, making it possible to score vestiges of Chemical Knowledge that can be presented from the Early Years of elementary school.