Criação de um almanaque com histórias em quadrinhos e atividades diversificadas para o ensino de genética mendeliana

Abstract

In high school, there is a great difficulty in making students active in learning, because traditional methodologies, which are commonly applied, generally involve classes where the teacher is the protagonist of the process. This scenario does not always favor the teaching of complex subjects and can often cause demotivation in students. Mendelian genetics is often considered a difficult subject to understand, however, it is essential in the assimilation of other topics such as: evolution, cell biology and ecology. To make this content more attractive and easier to understand, this project aimed to develop a differentiated didactic sequence, and create, together with the students, a magazine in almanac format, with playful activities and comic books. The project was developed at the Duque de Caxias State School in Juiz de Fora (MG), with a 3rd year high school class. The didactic sequence applied took place in 8 meetings, each with 2 classes. In them, resources were used to attract and motivate students to participate, such as: use of frank, accessible and affective dialogue between teacher and students, use of digital applications, videos, experiments and direct participation of students in the production of comic books, texts, characters and recreational activities. The stories and activities were developed collaboratively between students and teachers, which served as the basis for the construction of a teaching material: the “Bioervilhas” almanac. It is believed that the use of this didactic sequence and the production of the almanac was able to assist in learning Mendelian genetics and increased student motivation and participation. In addition to providing more protagonism to students, helping to develop creativity and interest during the teaching-learning process. Furthermore, we saw that the use of frank dialogue between teachers and students and affection between the parties promoted greater freedom in the expression of opinions on the part of students and helped to awaken interest in studying, participating during classes and, and carrying out proposed activities. The Bioervilhas almanac is an additional resource that can be used by other teachers to assist in teaching genetics and is available for free on Instagram: @bio_ervilhas.