Divulgação científica em astrobiologia por meio de exposição como promotora do ensino interdisciplinar entre biologia, física e química

Abstract

Astrobiology as a transversal theme to the Natural Sciences can serve as an alternative in favor of a teaching and learning process based on interdisciplinarity between biological, physical and chemical concepts. The isolation between school subjects of Natural Sciences makes it impossible to fully understand the natural phenomena of everyday life, because such phenomena do not occur in isolation, that is, they are not specific to Biology, Physics or Chemistry. The present study stands out for being a qualitative research of an applied nature, developed through exploratory research. The objective of this investigation was to develop educational products at the Centro Integrado de Educação Assis Chateaubriand (CIEAC) that would encourage high school students, the interest in scientific knowledge in a context of interdisciplinary exhibition from the perspective of Astrobiology. During the course of the research, educational products were developed: a Guide for setting up an itinerant exhibition - Scientific Dissemination in Astrobiology, a Manual of activities: Astrobiology experiments and the Astrobiological Trail - board game. When we applied these educational products to 117 students in the 3rd year of high school at CIEAC, it was found that the low level of cientific knowledge can be reduced by working with biological, physical and chemical concepts in a non-compartmentalized way, considering previous knowledge of these cognoscent subjects of the teaching and learning process. The results achieved demonstrated that the methodologies and strategies used provided a creative performance between the teacher and his students during the application of the research project in the Biology classes, helping them to overcome some formative problems, in addition to promoting the critical-reflexive capacity. In view of this, it is expected that the studies developed in Elementary School by students can, in fact, be consolidated in High School, thus expanding the understanding of life, the planet Earth and the universe, that is, the natural world.