A Inserção de Tópicos de Astronomia no Ensino Médio Politécnico, o Seminário Integrado e a Articulação do Conhecimento

Abstract

This work presents a proposal developed in the classroom, with a class of second grade of high school at the Escola Estadual de Ensino Médio Nossa Senhora da Assunção, located in the urban area in Cacapava do Sul, RS. Through this work were developed under the coordination of the discipline of Integrated Seminar, activities relating to the study of astronomy to thereby carry out a study on the potential for joint exercises this theme as well as its ability to promote an interdisciplinary and integrated work from different fields of knowledge. In its execution, were employed various strategies to encourage group work, dialogue, interactivity and collective construction, thus contemplating some recommendations of the Law of Guidelines and Bases of Education, National Curriculum Standards, as well as the Rules that guides the Polytechnic Education. During the development of the instructional sequence, learning situations that showed progressive differentiation and integrative reconciliation, presented by Ausubel, and social interaction proposed by Vygotsky, a search approach with theories of meaningful learning and mediation were privileged. The instructional sequence was developed through eight topics presented, seeking depth and complexity of related content, on which were proposed instruments and various approaches, such as reading and discussion of texts, guided tours and experimental activities, among others, ending with the presentation of works produced in Interdisciplinary Seminar. The analysis of data obtained from the implementation of this proposal were guided by a qualitative research through the use of questionnaires, interviews, preparation of concept maps and other elaborate productions throughout the process; and quantitatively by means of the tests.