As fases da lua e a mitologia tupi-guarani: um caminho entre a ciência e a cultura numa aula para o ensino fundamental

Abstract

The present work reports an activity developed in the year 2015, during the discipline of Science Teaching Methodology of the Licentiate course in Biological Sciences of the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA). The objective was to build knowledge on the theme phases of the moon, taking as pedagogical strategies an indigenous mythical narrative and a dynamic. After the development of the class an evaluation was made with the students of the discipline. The participant students' speeches were analyzed using the technique of content analysis and categorization. The categories constructed from the analyzes were: Dynamics, teacher-student interaction and Indigenous Culture. It can be seen from the analysis that the dynamics is an interesting methodology in the process of knowledge construction, as well as the interaction between teacher-student. In addition, the insertion of the indigenous culture in the classes allows the student to recognize the context in which he lives by identifying the indigenous culture and, thus, to understand his own history.