Metodologias alternativas no ensino de Ciências: uso de teatro e mitologia no ensino de movimentos internos da Terra

Abstract

The objective of this work is to report and analyze a class developed in the discipline of teaching methodology offered by the undergraduate course in Biological Sciences of the Federal University of Lavras, MG. The class tried to construct concepts referring to the internal movements of the Earth using as methodological strategy a theatrical play, based on the mythology of the Chilean culture of the Mapuche people. Through this pedagogical tool it was possible to understand their relationships with the teaching process learning science and work with cultural diversity. The lesson was applied to the licenciandos that studied the discipline and, from the analysis made by them, it is noticed that the use of the dramatization allowed to approach the theme in a more dynamic way and thus to construct the proposed concepts in a more interactive and collective way.