Feiras de Ciências como instrumento de disseminação da metodologia científica: elaboração de roteiro para Feiras de Ciências

Abstract

cience fairs have been in Brazilian schools everyday schools since the 1960s, and have changed considerably over the decades. This work had as its main objective the elaboration of a script to help the teachers of a public school of the public network of the state of Rio de Janeiro in the elaboration of science fairs. For the accomplishment of the script was made a survey of the conception of the teachers on the subject in question. The survey was carried out through a questionnaire with open questions and a closed one, and among 28 teachers of the school, only eight returned it. The data was analyzed through the discourse analysis methodology. The results showed that although the teachers have theoretical knowledge, they have difficulties in transposing theory into practice, not using all the potential that Science Fairs represents for the development of science teaching by projects. Based on the difficulties identified, a bibliographical survey was carried out to understand the methodological bases of science fairs to construct a script that facilitates teachers in the elaboration of these school events, as well as to disseminate teaching by projects in the school where the work was done. This survey retrieved 37 full papers and 24 abstracts in events, which mostly highlight the ability of these kinds of school events to disseminate teaching by projects and give students greater autonomy in the construction of knowledge. The main focus of the script is suggesting proposals on how to introduce projects into school life, since, in the analysis of the teachers' conception, the most complicated part is the transposition of methodological concepts for academic practice.