Da indagação ao gibi: a produção de uma história em quadrinhos influenciada pelas percepções do pensamento científico de alunos do Ensino Fundamental

Abstract

The didactic labs are crucial for science teaching, allowing students to solve problems and form hypotheses. However, the potential of these labs is often lost because of teachers’ focus on finding a correct answer. This leads the students to an automatic experience, limiting their autonomy and problem-solving capacity, which demonstrates a lack in the use of Scientific Thinking. The use of comic books as a playful learning tool becomes an alternative that could help the students to develop scientific problem-solving skills at lab practices. Considering this scenario, a comic book was designed approaching the Scientific Thinking by using scientific concepts in their daily lives owing to overcome students’ practice class difficulties. This research is a qualitative approach, in which data sources were observation and logbooks, with the author’s experience reports produced during his volunteer work at Maria do Socorro Alves Carneiro Elementary School in Fortaleza, Ceará-Brazil. Based on these notes, a comic book was produced using the student’s ideas and perceptions about the Scientific Thinking. This book aim to be educational and accessible, allowing the readers to identify to the characters and the place where the story happens. Its easy and fluid reading leads to learning through the students’ reality. Adding to that, it is expected that this comic evolve into a printed published copies that can be distributed to public libraries, becoming available to students beyond the university campus.