O projeto “Sementinha Mágica”e o ensino de ciências para crianças na educação infantil

Abstract

The paper presents a Learning Project developed a Municipal Early Childhood Center, located on the east zone of the Manaus city. It results of an action research and intervention in the context of undergraduate education at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), through discipline "the child, nature and society", held from August to September 2012. The need to provide content that is present in the daily lives of children on the basis of theoretical and practical proposal to propitiate different methods for teaching science in kindergarten, led us to this intervention. Teaching about planting and harvesting is part of the recommendations of pedagogical processes geared to learners, based on the National Curriculum for Early Childhood Education (1998). The problematized of this study is howusing school outdoor space for growing vegetables, providing interdisciplinary learning and development of skills associated to the contents of Sciences? The study followed a qualitative approach to education, based on direct and participant observation. Four techniques for the development of "Sementinha Magic" project, with children 4 and 5 years old served by the Early Childhood Education visits were made. Several instruments were used to record the actions developed: the field notebook, the photographic record and a script semistructured observation. The results indicate the need to put small children in research activities and undiscovered in Early Childhood Education, providing effective learning. Keywords: Project Magic Seed; Childhood Education; Science Teaching.