No mundo da Lua : Astronomia em quadrinhos para os anos iniciais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

The Unipampa Planetarium, which mission is to promote Cultural Scientific Literacy, receives a large number of visits from classes of the initial series of Elementary School. In general, teachers in these classes have little or no knowledge of Astronomy and lack appropriate material to develop classroom work. Considering the pedagogical value of Comic Books and its continuous insertion in the school context, especially in the initial series, this work proposes to insert the Comic Stories in a teacher training for the initial years of Elementary School, providing subsidies for the teaching of Astronomy, in general and, in particular, for the Cultural Scientific Literacy in articulations to the visits to the Planetarium of Unipampa. The construction of the comics was carried out based on a previous discussion with the teachers of the initial series of Elementary School and their final evaluation was made through a focus group study. The results show that the contact with the different languages provided by the Comics is able to contribute to the enhancement of its pedagogical use in the continuing education of teachers from the early years of elementary school who intend to visit the Unipampa Planetarium.