Utilização de aulas práticas no ensino de ciências nos anos finais do ensino fundamental do 6º ao 9º ano numa escola da rede municipal de Boa Hora - PI

Abstract

Science teaching presents difficulties for students to assimilate the contents and a challenge for teachers where traditional teaching is still manifested. And it is important that teachers look for ways to diversify classes using ways that stimulate the teaching and learning of students. Practical activities are educational ways to stimulate creativity, criticism and reflection of the student in the process of teaching and learning thus providing expressive learning. In order to know how teachers were using the practical activities with students in the teaching of Science of the final years of elementary school in a Municipal School of Boa Hora Piauí was conducted a questionnaire containing eight questions with four teachers of the referred school. Teachers agree that practical activities contribute to the construction of knowledge teaching - learning, arouses the interest of students and complement the theory worked in the classroom. The practical activities are used monthly by two teachers and two of them do not define, and field class and models are methods developed during classes and experiments was the most applied activity.