Sequência didática para promoção do ensino sobre o câncer: relato de experiência em uma turma do 2º ano do Ensino Médio

Abstract

The teaching of biology is increasingly geared to prepare the student for the execution of a test, becoming secondary the ability of students to think and understand the phenomena that establish the nature. This failure in teaching biology makes students lose the ability to be a transformative agent, missing opportunities to have an opinion of several issues that permeate the media, such as dengue, chikungunya and cancer. In which refers to cancer, this has become a public health problem due to the large number of deaths and new cases that appears in Brazil by 2016-2017. Based on this, the biology teacher can have a very important role in which refers to education about cancer, especially when it involves the prevention. Therefore, the objective of this study was to report the experience in the development and use of a didactic sequence about the cancer, but also associate the theoretical knowledge on cancer with the daily life of the students. To achieve these goals was developed a didactic sequence divided into six lessons and to evaluate it, two questionnaires were applied, one before the first class and the other at the end of the last class. Through the analysis of the questionnaires, students achieved a considerable improvement in all matters and the case studies only reinforced what was seen with the results obtained from the questionnaires. Finally, the didactic sequence proved to be applicable and effective for cancer education.