Ensino de ciências e desenhos animados: uma análise do Show da Luna

Abstract

The animated series Luna's show narrates her experiences, a six-year-old girl passionate about science. For Luna Terra it is a big laboratory and that is why it is always observing things around it and clearing doubts to understand the phenomena around it. In her investigations she has the help of her younger brother Jupiter and her pet Claudio the ferret. the investigations are at the same time real and imaginary, it is in this context that the central objective of this research is inserted, in which we seek to investigate the potential of the animated Luna's show as a didactic resource to favor the investigative approach in early childhood education and in the early years of elementary school. The data presented were generated in the analysis of 131 episodes of the first five seasons of the series. For each episode, the title, the central theme, the motivating questions and the scientific concepts presented were analyzed. In a second moment, we built the characterizations of the characters, performing a general analysis of the episodes to establish a dialogue between the design and the BNCC guidelines for the young student audience. In the third act, we perform an in-depth analysis of an episode to understand how the narrative characteristics appear throughout the narrative. In general, the topics addressed in the animation address different fields of knowledge that make up the area of natural sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy and geology that present several investigative characteristics in dialogue with the BNCC. From the analysis carried out, we concluded that the design is very suitable for use in the classroom, presenting the scientific content through playful elements and finally presenting the image of the scientist without labels and stereotypes. Keywords: Animated series; Science teaching; investigative approach