Poema animal: o uso do cordel como método avaliativo no ensino de zoologia

Abstract

Cordel literature is a form of manifestation that is deeply rooted in northeastern culture, being identified by its poems that are composed of rhymes culturally known as a sung poem. Faced with the scarcity and difficulty of new teaching methods in the classroom, especially in zoology related topics, the cordel was applied in the 9th year of elementary school and in the second year of high school in a public school in Fortaleza / CE with the objective to evaluate students' learning in relation to the themes passed through cordel literature. The poem was used as a new evaluative method teaching zoology subjects to students while introducing this popular text into the classroom. The objective was to present a new evaluation as an alternative to reduce these learning difficulties in some disciplines related to biology, also trying to modify the common mode of how this learning is evaluated. This activity presented itself as promising, presenting results that demonstrated its efficiency and its wide reception by the students of both high school and elementary school, seeking to merge the popular literature of the Northeast with the teaching and demonstrating a good method to fix the presented content.