The perception of elementary school students about the experience of research from a learning unit

Abstract

The aim of this article is to understand how the elementary school students perceive the experiences provided by a Learning Unit about the origin of the planet Earth and the life that exists in it, from the perspective of classroom research. It is a research with qualitative approach of the case study type. The study participants were 23 students from the 4th year of Elementary School, primary years, from a municipal public school in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul. During two months a Learning Unit on the theme was developed, based on the interests expressed in questions formulated by the students themselves. After the proposal was developed, eight students participated in a semi-structured interview, recorded in audio and later transcribed. The answers were treated via Discursive Textual Analysis. The results provide indications to ensure the relevance of methodological proposals that value the students' knowledge and their protagonist, as well as consider their interests expressed in questions.

Keywords

• ensino de ciências
• pesquisa em sala de aula
• unidade de aprendizagem