Avaliação de atividades investigativas e os impactos sobre a água

Abstract

This work had as target to identify such as investigative activities contribute in teaching Science and in expanding students' knowledge of Primary Education. This activities approached the impacts on water use and were applied at Primary Education, in two class of sixth year, in the school at Presidente Juscelino, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The activity was divided in five steps: reading and text analysis, for to know the initial knowledge of students, exhibit and reflection a video, research and experimental activity, visiting at Rio Paraúna and streams that cross the city and finally the students answered a questionnaire and a report to check their learning and satisfaction. From analysis of these five steps we can conclude that investigative activities caused lessons more interesting and contributed to a better understanding of the water motif.