Catalase action in vegetables: student biochemistry hands-on class of the more education program / Ação da catalase nos vegetais: aula prática de bioquímica para alunos do programa mais educação

Abstract

Biochemistry is a discipline that is involved in the reality of the students, but students poorly understand its affairs. Therefore, biochemistry should be worked in classroom in order to stimulate a critical and investigative character in students making them evolve in a dynamic and contextualized way. This paper aims to promote a practical lesson in biochemistry for students in the program more education. The lesson was held in the Science Lab of a State School located in the city of Arapiraca - AL. At first, there was the presentation of a lecture addressing the content of enzymatic action through a dynamic and stimulating language taught by members of the Bachelor's Degree in biology and then the class was divided into groups to perform the practical action of enzymatic catalase in plants. We observed that the approaches made in lecture on enzymatic activity were intriguing, mainly because it covers examples with food. During the practice has become more evident the absorption of knowledge through practical learning of the proposed content, because we could see the students' satisfaction in the discipline relate to their own realities. Therefore, it became clear that addressing a teaching method that makes use of practices, assists in learning the content, allows the student a better learning and improves teaching practice.

Keywords

• Teaching
• Practice
• Biochemistry