Ciências para crianças: trabalhando com o tema sol na educação infantil

Abstract

In Early Childhood Education, pedagogical practices are being reviewed for an active role in the formation involving pertinent information and knowledge, for the student to develp skills and potentialities that will contribute to the world view and undestanding of the phenomena observed. The National Curriculum Framework for Early Childhood Education (Brazil, 1998) points out that the young child (0 to 4 years old) establishes the understanding that there is a relation between the natural phenomena contemplating the teaching of science for children as a process that challenges them and encourages action in the search for higher levels of knowledge and understanding of the physical-natural world engaging in observation and research activities on the action of light, heat, sound, force and movement. In this context, a didactic sequence was developed with an emphasis on Teaching Sciences in Early Childhood Education using the theme Sun as a trigger for the contextualization of information and intervention in the Teaching of students. Pedagogical practice was based on Jean Piaget's Theories considering the developmental phases of children and the teacher's need to present information and situations that favor the construction of knowledge. As educatonal production was elaborated a didactic sequence with material with the theme Sun identifying the physical phenomena that can be worked on in Early Childhood Education. The repertorie of classes and visits made it possible for the children to experience Science, thus interacting between internal structures and external contexts, making learning active and occurring the acquisition of knowledge presented during the project.