AVALIAÇÃO DOS CONTEÚDOS DE CIÊNCIAS ABORDADOS EM LIVROS DIDÁTICOS DO 8º ANO DO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL

Abstract

Education is the main means of individual and collective transformation of a society, which provides the cognitive development of thought and criticality through methods and didactic tools employed to the educator. In this perspective, the objective was to analyze how the contents of Science of the 8th Year of Elementary Education are approached by the didactic books, in public schools of the city of Areia, state of Paraíba, Northeast of Brazil. For the analysis of the textbooks, four titles were selected that are among the six titles indicated by the Ministry of Education (MEC), they are, Natural Sciences of Eduardo Leite do Canto, Jornadas.cie de Maíra Rosa Carnevalle, Will to know Sciences of Leandro Godoy and Marcela Ogo and Natural Sciences of Olga Santana. In order to analyze the data, we searched for a descriptive analysis of each work, indicating the authors who better work some content and for the construction of the tables, considering the topics presented in each chapter, aiming at the preparation of the classes. The book that obtained the best evaluation was by Leandro Godoy and Marcela Ogo was, because the book answered the contents listed in the National Curricular Parameters (PCN) being indicated as the best book of Sciences to be used in the 8th year of elementary school.