O vocabulário científico no ensino de Biologia: um instrumento facilitador para aprendizagem.

Abstract

Bearing in mind that understanding biology and all its scientific words is a challenge that lasts over time and makes many students unable to fully absorb this teaching properly, research on this aspect in order to verify the main difficulties of students on the scientific vocabulary used in biology. For that, it was necessary to dialogue with the teacher to understand his position in this regard, and then carry out a survey with the students about their possible difficulties, which culminates in the elaboration of a virtual glossary after the data analysis. To this end, the research was carried out in three high school classes, namely: 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of a state school in the city of Remígio in the state of Paraíba at the beginning of the 2020 school year. The research was exploratory with a qualitative and quantitative approach carried out in three stages: 1- Dialogue with the teacher; 2- Application of questionnaires with students; 3- Preparation of the virtual glossary and dissemination of the website. The responses were analyzed and quantified according to the frequency in which they were cited. In view of the results, it was observed that students have difficulties in understanding the scientific words in the teaching of biology and that they also do not know their meanings. But, nevertheless, they make use of annotations of the words they do not understand to carry out research through the internet and answer their doubts. In addition, it was found that the use of images and videos are tools of fundamental importance for learning.