A utilização de maquete no processo de ensino-aprendizagem de astronomia: uma proposta para o 6º ano do ensino fundamental.

Abstract

The workshops are means of making abstracts concepts become reality. And develop cognitive skills in the students, in several areas, besides stimulating the learning and their artistic gifts. This research aimed at evaluating the school performance of participating students, in the educational proposal who approached the modeling workshop in the process of teaching learning of astronomy. The research was realized with the students of E.M.E.F. Prof.ª Maria Augusta Alencar, located in the São Raimundo village, in the county of Nova Timboteua, state of Pará. The research was realized in four steps, in two different classes of the 6th grade. A class was named experimental class (with 28 students). Where the modeling workshop activity was developed as an active teaching methodology, and the other, the control class (with 25 students), cause in this class was developed only traditional teaching methodology. In the experimental and control classes were developed similar activities, with the exception of step 3. In this step the experimental class developed a practical activity based on model workshops of content approached in a theoretical class, while the control class resolved exercices. Through the socioeconomic questionnaires deduce there are some differences more significant when it said about the main color/ethnicity self-declared by students, as the main source of family support and the acess to the cell phone and the internet. Althought, the similar characteristics become the students, of the two classes, a group of students inserted in the same social and economic context. Through of uses evaluative tests it is possible to verify the growth for the begnning to end yield, of the two classes, being the experimental consecutively, the increase in numbers of students with notes above average. Became factual that active methodology featured (models workshop) can further the intectual process growth of students.