#Micontamais: construindo saberes ecológicos por meio do ensino de ciências por investigação

Abstract

The present work addresses the teaching of ecology in biology from the Teaching of Sciences by Investigation (EnCI), an approach that integrates pedagogical practices and makes it possible to visualize the reflexes of ecology in the students' lives. It aimed to present a teaching experience report on a teaching project for students of the 1st year of Integrated Technical Education at a Federal Public School who participated in a set of activities with an investigative focus on the ecological consequences of offering food to tamarins, wild animals that roam the school site. Based on the fundamentals of learning through projects, teaching science through investigation and the decision-making process with socio-environmental responsibility, a question of scientific orientation was systematized for students to develop their investigative practice. As a result, there was the perception that even with the eventual reduction of human behavior of feeding the tamarins, they still had easy access to food scraps through the school's garbage cans and with that in mind, the students began to develop a new project in which they will plan an antifauna dump model. Therefore, the potential of the EnCI to engage students in a question of scientific orientation was portrayed, specifically the construction of multiple ecological knowledge in an articulated way with the school reality. It also contributed to a better understanding of the nature of Science, based on experiencing some of its methods and processes, such as the ways in which this community constantly seeks, questions, (de)constructs and shares knowledge.