AS ATIVIDADES PRÁTICAS NO ENSINO DE CIÊNCIAS: LIMITES E POSSIBILIDADES SOBRE O USO DESSE RECURSO DIDÁTICO NO PROCESSO DE ENSINO-APRENDIZAGEM

• Main Authors: Tayse Pereira Alves Costa, Cristiane Silveira Mendes Nogueira, Alenice Ferreira Cruz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Laboratório de Políticas Públicas, Ruralidades e Desenvolvimento Territorial – LaPPRuDes 2020-11-01
• Series: Revista Macambira
• Subjects: science teachers; elementary school ii; municipal schools
• Online Access: http://revista.lapprudes.net/index.php/RM/article/view/501

Practical activities are didactic tools of paramount importance in the teaching-learning process, as they arouse students’ interest in learning, in addition to providing a better assimilation of the contents taught in Science. The present work has a quantitative nature. It aimed at analyzing the types of practical activities developed by Science teachers, verifying the frequency they occur in the school, identifying teachers’ difficulties to carry them out and to know how teachers perceive the importance of practical activities, as a pedagogical resource that facilitates the teaching-learning process. First, a bibliographic review was carried out, then a semi-structured questionnaire was applied with 12 teachers who teach Science in Elementary School II of the Municipal Public Network of Guanambi/BA. The result of the research revealed that teachers use practical activities in the teaching process to stimulate knowledge construction and motivate students. However, they reported the difficulties in carrying out practical activities, pointing out: the absence of an adequate place to carry out the actions, the small amount of available material and the high number of students per classroom. The teachers point out how important it is to carry out practical activities in Science Teaching, as they provide a more pleasurable learning, when compared to merely expository classes.