Astronomia como forma de estimular o aprendizado na educação básica: uma revisão

Abstract

Astronomy is one of the oldest areas of science and one of the most enchanting, even after millennia the observation of the sky and the cosmos attract and captivate people. Many of these come to enjoy studying physics with the hope of understanding more about these celestial phenomena, but end up frustrated because they hardly study this topic during regular elementary and high school education. However, in recent years it is notorious the growth of research on scientific dissemination in regular teaching through astronomy topics, especially in high school, in view of this, it is perceived that such research contributes to the popularization of the learning of astronomical knowledge. In this sense, the present work was developed with the aim of studying and showing how astronomy developed over time, showing teaching-learning methods that expand and introduce this theme in the classroom and as structuring content for school learning. For this, a didactic research was developed, based on investigative activities, in order to show how astronomy is treated in middle and elementary education today. To this end, we analyzed the documents covering Brazilian education in order to show points that highlight how astronomy can be applied to students of Basic Education as a whole. Finally, it is presented as a proposal that the teaching of astronomy is included in regular basic education in an interdisciplinary way, eventually stimulating the deepening of the physical and scientific knowledge that astronomy provides inside and outside the classroom