Elaboração de modelos didáticos para a aprendizagem de reprodução humana

Abstract

The excessive use of descriptive teaching technique for learning in biology makes this discipline known as a set of memorizations of phylum, cycles, and processes rather than useful learning that somehow correlates to the student's daily life. Reproductive biology involves many aspects of human life, it is necessary to consolidate knowledge in this area for students to correctly deal with diverse opinions and interpretations on the subject. Studies on science education point to modeling as a powerful tool to assist in the construction of argumentative learning. Therefore, the main of this work was to use the production of modeling and didactic games as a teaching-learning tool in human reproductive biology class. For that, it was proposed for public high school students to build modeling models and games related to reproductive biology contents, such as meiosis, gametogenesis, embryology and anatomy of the human reproductive system. Tests were done before and after applying activity, in order to identify whether the scientific and biological concepts were correctly used in the games and / or modeling. A qualitative analysis of the students' narratives and the students' involvement with the model building shows that the strategy contributed to the initiation of meaningful learning of the concepts of reproductive biology. The models constructed by the students brought about morphophysiological descriptions of biological processes. Both the building the games and playing with them solidified these concepts in a very dynamic way.