Favorecendo o potencial investigativo de uma atividade prática: um relato das ações de um professor de ciências

Abstract

The present work is a report of a pedagogical experience focused on teaching science based on teaching by investigation. It aims to indicate how the teacher's actions are capable of enriching the potential of a practical activity, giving it an investigative character. The experience took place in a set of classes on the sense organs over the last three years of Elementary School, highlighting the first two classes related to a practical activity with tangerines. It resulted in evidence of how the teacher sought to give investigative contours to the activity, in particular, the following aspects: different possibilities of interpreting the fact, need to listen to colleagues, articulation of ideas, based on collective contributions and importance of using evidence. Therefore, the evidence presented and the notes made reiterate the studies that have indicated how the teacher's mediation acts in the epistemic learning that enhances the teaching of science by investigation.