A formação de conceitos no ensino de ciências naturais na educação infantil de uma escola do campo.

Abstract

This research pedagogical intervention type is dedicated to the teaching of natural sciences at preschool school field located in an inland municipality of Rio Grande do Sul and aims to plan, implement and evaluate an educational experience inspired by the ABC project in education Scientific - the Hands on and founded the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (THCA). The intervention aimed to teach the classification of living things through a cutout in the animal classification system, then proposing the classification of vertebrates. The intervention was developed for 14 rounds spread over 7 days, with a didactic structure that involved six actions that consist of multiple operations each, in order to present the differences between the animals that represent the five groups of vertebrates, and soon the criteria each groups, mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and anfíbios. Actions and operations were adapted to the age group of children emphasizing the playful character, given emphasis on storytelling, jokes with collection of "little animals", field trips and small experiments. Como method of evaluation of the intervention were two holdings sessions on the contents worked a previous application of the intervention, with the intention of assessing the prior knowledge of children about classification of animals and a final, after the application of the intervention that aimed to evaluate the classification of later animals intervenção.Os results showed that the daily life of the field may be an open-air laboratory to carry out the teaching of Natural Sciences enabling children evolve in animal classification processes internalizing criteria for grouping of animals in the five groups that make up the vertebrates, mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and amphibians.