O envolvimento dos estudantes em aulas de ciências por meio da linguagem narrativa das histórias em quadrinhos

Abstract

The motivation underlying this study was to look for strategies that attracted the students’ attention to the content taught in the classroom and to engage them in science. In this work we planned and developed a set of activities related to a comic (HQ) involving the concept of density. The objective was to investigate how illustrated narrative language can contribute to student involvement with Science/Chemistry classes. For this, the classes were filmed and two problem questions were proposed to the students, one after reading the comic and another about 3 months after. The analysis was performed considering the students’ involvement with the narrative present in the HQ and the propositions made to solve the problem questions. We observed students interested in class and we realized that the elements in the story were kept in students’ memory throughout the research process. We argue that comics are effective tools to give students an interest in discussing a concept, helping them to relate concept to context and thus facilitate learning.