ABSTRACT
Water as an important element for life maintenance and biological balance is a complex subject matter and demands a contextualized and interdisciplinary approach from the teacher. The knowledge connection to real situations and technology usage is requirement for the current formation of High School students, together to challenges of pedagogical practice. The same way it is a challenge for us to change the teaching and learning paradigm when they are active methodological proposals for learning, inserting the student in the center of this process in an active way and with recognized gains in motivation and learning. The main focus of this research was to survey and analyze the applying of a pedagogical proposal using educational robotics as an integrative and motivational tool studying The Water to promote environmental education in an investigative approach to a tributary of Murucupi River placed around Eduardo Angelim School in the town of Barcarena, North of Brazil, including the production and validation of a didactic script for High School Biology teachers. The investigative activities were made in order to contribute not only for teaching practice, but also for social interaction, motivation for knowledge building and to solve challenges, autonomy and communication, making the students paying attention around the school. The research methodology was made according to a quantitative approaching together to a qualitative one. Starting from an integrated view of the environment and the previously shared studies, the students were challenged to think about ways to construct a robot that was base for electrodes to check the temperature, turbidity and water pH from Murucupi River and from school. Although it was a rich and significant experience for the teaching learning to implement new practices, the lack of structure is seen as a challenge to be overcome. The students seemed motivated in the activities, the collaborative construction and the sharing of learning with the community during the Science Fair, watching a better learning as individual self-esteem, and mainly in recognizing the importance of environment education and water for community. All the steps were useful to accomplish in practice, the experience of a scientific research and validate the didactic script made from the experiments with students.
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