Utilização do QR Code para obtenção de informações nutricionais da merenda escolar

Abstract

The teaching of healthy eating in the school environment is challenging, but necessary. Students need to recognize basic dietary needs for good physical and mental development, and adopt healthy lifestyle habits in order to mitigate risks to their health. At the Professora Ester Siqueira State School, located in the municipality of Cantagalo, Minas Gerais, where this project was carried out, the food menu meets the precepts recommended by the National School Feeding Plan. In the present study, healthy eating was associated with the teaching of Biology, so that the student could acquire the necessary knowledge for a good understanding of nutrients, their functions and nutritional needs. Therefore, it was proposed that the discipline of Biology should be a multiplier of this knowledge. For this, technological tools were used. The use of the QR Code as an information and communication tool was a good practice to be adopted, taking into account that technological instruments such as cell phones and tablets are already part of the daily life of the target audience. As a result, it was observed that the construction of information boards about the composition of school meals in QR Code increased the student's interest in the knowledge of the nutrients that make up the meal and its association with the benefits that good eating habits bring to their health. It was intended that the student of the 1st Years of New High School, in the afternoon, learn and disseminate knowledge in their community and recognize the QR Code as a digital means of propagating information, through an investigative and creative Didactic Sequence rich in active methodologies, such as the One Minute Paper and Expert Talk. As products, a Didactic Sequence, the QR Code plates produced by the students, the answers to the questionnaires and the dissemination of knowledge to other students in the school were presented. It was concluded that this study has effective potential in the teaching of Biology related to nutrition, nutrients and healthy eating.