Promovendo a divulgação científica em sala de aula pelo uso da Revista Ciência Hoje das crianças

Abstract

The Today Science Magazine for Children (CHC) is a didactic and accessible resource for teachers from Brazilian public schools, aiming to promote the contextualization of scientific topics, countering to the mere memorization of definitions in the classroom. This study aims to understand how science teachers are working with dissemination of scientific texts of the CHC magazine in classroom and how it may aid teachers in the science teaching. This study was conducted in 2012 at the João Vieira public school in Coari, Amazonas and it involved two science teachers and thirty-two students from the seventh grade, two in the age group from ten to twelve years old. During the study we conducted semi-structured interviews, non-participatory observation and application of questionnaires. The results introduce us that natural science teachers use the magazine like a didactic resource in classroom in a non systematically way for abstract writing but they don’t take advantage of the scientific contents of the magazine for the learning of science. However, encouraging the collaborative work and promoting more participatory activities using the magazine, the students are better able to understand the contents. Key words: Dissemination of Scientific. Science Teaching. Contextualization of Science.