Ensino de ciências: sequência didática multissensorial sobre solos

Abstract

The scope of this research is the Soil theme, in Science teaching, approached by a Multi-sensory Didactic Sequence, which involves all of the five human senses. The research was elaborated by the researcher and developed with thirty students from the sixth grade in elementary school from a public city school in the city of Ituiutaba/MG, during the first semester of 2014. The Didactic Sequence has six moments, which are: 1. Previous ideas activity; 2. A debate of the previous ideas; 3. Theoretical class; 4. Picture cropping activity; 5. Multi-sensory practical activity I; and 6. Multi-sensory practical activity II. Throughout this paper, the six moments mentioned above are presented and discussed, and also their processes of elaboration, application and evaluation. The theoretical principles were based on authors that work with the Soil theme, and also authors who deal with multi-sensory activities. Besides, all of them were resorted to the presentation and discussion of data. The methodology of this research was qualitative, and its main objective was elaborating and disclosing a Multi-sensory Didactic Sequence. The execution of the present research is justified because of the few existing alternatives to a multi-sensory approach that is accessible to elementary school students. The didactic sequence has the objective to teach the characteristics of the soil, its formation and composition, its relation to the water, and it also reaches themes like the direct and indirect consequences of human actions on the soil. One advantage of using the sequence presented on this paper is that one can use the any of the moments separately, this way, it is possible to meet the needs of each class doing low financial cost activities.