O uso de metodologias ativas para a sensibilização sobre gravidez na adolescência no ensino de biologia

Abstract

Teenage pregnancy is a major risk factor for students remaining in the Brazilian public school network, directly impacting the quality of education offered to affected young people. This situation can worsen, accumulating negative effects when not addressed efficiently in the classroom. In this scenario, Biology teaching represents a strong union between education and health, enabling broad training for students, to instruct, educate, and prevent future generations about early pregnancy. The objective of this study is to analyze an investigative experience, carried out with high school students, through a Didactic Sequence (DS) on raising awareness of teenage pregnancy in biology teaching. Therefore, this DS included the application of a pretest questionnaire during its planning phase and the active methodology (AM) teaching approach throughout the other stages of its execution, making it possible to highlight the use of problematization in teaching, flipped classroom, research carried out in the computer laboratory, documentary screening and application of a didactic game. The sum of these approaches allowed a more profound understanding of the content worked in the classroom, maximizing teaching possibilities. The results obtained by the statistical analysis of the data, and the author's perception of the work carried out, were satisfactory and plausible to conclude that the application of DS has multiple positive aspects in the development of learning. Furthermore, the educational game turned out to be an innovative producer and encouraged the active participation of students. The students involved built and expanded their knowledge about teenage pregnancy, developing a critical and more conscious stance towards the work exposed. Finally, it is noteworthy that this study contributed assertively to improving learning in Biology teaching, through a DS to raise awareness about teenage pregnancy, using AM containing a didactic game developed about the stages of the menstrual cycle.