Alternativas ao ensino tradicional de evolução biológica sob o formato de protocolo de oficinas com investigação científica – PROPIC

Abstract

Even though Biological Evolution is a fundamental theme of biology, its teaching in contemporary times sets a great challenge, the problems that hinder the comprehension of biological evolution are centered on the persistence of a content teaching approach, in the absence of diversified methodologies. Considering this problem, we aim to produce workshops guided by the Protocol for the Development of Pedagogical Workshops Scientific Research - PROPIC that allow optimizing the teaching and learning process of biological evolution. To achieve this objective, we used the following activities: a) Debates prior to the activities to obtain subsumers and the formation of wordclouds, which guided us in our workshop preparation processes; b) to highlight the spatio-temporal context giving concrete milestones of events that allow the dimensioning of geological time and plate tectonics t; c) investigate the origin of modern animal taxa documented in the fossil record d) display and discuss videos that show the processes of artificial and natural selection; ; e) evaluation of the workshops execution through forms. Finally, the results show that the use of workshops specifically focused on the study of biological evolution contributes significantly to the teaching-learning process. It allowed participants to have better idea on how the biological evolution process occurs and how it relates to human activities and based on this pertinence, we have formulated a workshop guide aimed at teaching biological evolution.