Beleza natural, mitos, riscos e proteção: o tema raios, relâmpagos e trovões como proposta para a alfabetização científica

Abstract

This work aims to identify and analyze elements of scientific literacy that emerge from the application of a thematic didactic proposal to work on a theme of atmospheric electrical discharges with a regional Amazonian focus. We seek theoretical support in scientific literacy references and thematic approaches. The proposal for Teaching Physics Through Regional Themes (EFATR) that supports this work is developed in three stages: Presentation, Deepening and Production-Evaluation. The educational product developed consists of a booklet intended for students and was designed for the application of the thematic proposal in these three stages. The booklet contains an activity guide, a questionnaire for surveying previous knowledge, a motivating text for the presentation of the theme, two questionnaires for deepening, texts collected from other authors that help in the deepening phase and a text of guidelines for the third stage. The application was made in a class of 22 students from the 3rd year of high school at a public school in the urban area of the municipality of Alenquer- PA. In order to answer the question "what elements emerge from the application of a regionalized thematic proposal that can signal contributions to the scientific literacy process of high school students?", we developed a qualitative research using the content analysis methodology proposed by Roque Moraes, at the light of the three structuring axes of Sasseron and Carvalho's Scientific Literacy. In the qualitative analysis of the production of 16 letters and 7 videos produced in the final stage, associated with the analysis of other productions during the first two stages of the proposal, we present the discussions of the elements that gave us indications that the work with regional themes has the potential to promote the CA, especially due to the diversity of resources used that allowed the development of various skills presented by the theoretical references used.