Práticas investigativas com mosquitos Aedes com base na metodologia 5E

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the biology and morphological characteristics between three adult species of the genus Aedes and morphological characteristics between larvae and pupae of the genus Aedes, Culex and Anopheles through the 5E investigative methodology (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate), involving second-year high school students. The research follows a descriptive and explanatory model with a qualitative approach. A diagnostic questionnaire was used to assess students' level of knowledge about Aedes mosquitoes. At each step developed, one can observe everything from the students' prior knowledge, followed by the elaboration of hypotheses and production of knowledge, to the production of products that can disseminate the knowledge produced in the classroom to the entire community in which the school is located. inserted. Active methodologies such as brainstorming, flipped classroom, dialogued expository class, playfulness through didactic card games and the use of technologies in application development, in which students from the IT Technician course developed an application about the Aedes genus entitled "Aedes OB", whose acronym “OB” refers to the municipality of Ouro Branco, to bring knowledge to the population, highlighting biological information about the vector and through a map of the city, highlighting the most vulnerable points of mosquito proliferation as well as methods to combat and prevent the vector, paths built within the five steps that gave rise to the Didactic Sequence. The application of the methodology led to the production of a teaching guide that can be published and made available to basic education teachers, on the ProfBio UFPB portal through the products tab, licensed with a Creative Commons license, whose attributions: Free, Non-Commercial and Non-commercial Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND), so that other teachers can use this product, not only with investigative classes on Aedes mosquitoes, but adapt it to involve students in other themes of fundamental importance for the production of knowledge, so that they can be protagonists not only in the production of knowledge, but also demonstrating the individual potential of each student in areas such as technology and art.