Alfabetização científica nos anos finais do ensino fundamental: fermentação do leite como meio de ensino em ciências

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.5442418112

• Palavras-chave: Alfabetização; Fundamental; Fermentação.

• Keywords: Literacy; Fundamental; Fermentation.

• Abstract: The following pages contain a qualitative study planned and carried out to understand the assumptions, characteristics and evidence of Scientific Literacy in Elementary Education in the Final Years. The study data were collected in a ninth-grade classroom at a state public school in the town of Getúlio Vargas, belonging to the municipality of Terra Alta. These are data from the voice recording research of full classes and the written work and/or activities produced by the students, in addition to all the teaching material provided to them during classes. We began our research by reviewing the topic “Scientific Literacy through fermentation in artisanal yogurt production” in national and international literature on Science Didactics through which we found information that allowed us to propose the structuring axes of Scientific Literacy. These axes are considered in our research to analyze the activities that make up a didactic sequence involving discussions in which the same topic is discussed taking into account scientific knowledge and technologies through local knowledge. The study of the specific bibliography of the area also led us to propose indicators of Scientific Literacy: action and investigation skills that we consider necessary to be used when we intend to build knowledge on any topic. After analyzing the didactic sequence, oral arguments and written work and/or experimental activities carried out by the students, we found very substantial evidence that Scientific Literacy is in process for a large part of the students in the class studied.