Take own teaching action as a research object contributes to the teacher's improvement and the academic success of their students. Researches in this direction are important for the ability to develop the teaching role in the process of teaching and learning, with autonomy and construction of reflection possibilities and reframing of the actions developed. In this context, to inquire about my own practice, I came to the following guiding questions of this master's research: what challenges and opportunities that arise in the practice of teaching with research? In what terms to develop the teaching of science through investigative sequences contributes to my own teacher training and to build knowledge of my students in the early years of elementary school? Given these issues, the following goal was established and directs my gaze during the research: to investigate their own teaching practice in the early years of elementary school, using teaching investigative sequences as a means to streamline the process of building scientific knowledge of students and to improve my action as a teacher, allowing the development of an educational product able to assist in training other teachers. The qualitative approach to narrative mode guides that walk. For the analysis of practice with students, use the reference of Piaget and Vygotsky, as well as the production of authors who discuss the teaching action as reflection and research process. The field work was done in my own classroom with a group of 4th year with which I developed three sequences Investigative (SI) on the floating bodies in the water, involving concepts of mass, volume and density and care for the environment . For data logging, I used the everyday narrative, audio recordings and video lessons and activities of students drawn from classroom practice. For data analysis, I resorted to the discursive textual analysis, enabling the reinterpretation of experiences and their meanings. As a result of the action and the very practical reflection process, I observed the development of investigative attitudes in students, the expansion of spontaneous concepts about the contents studied and the exercise of individual and group action, as well as reflective and independent postures on their own learning process, and for me also experienced in the course of work. In this dynamic, I discussed about everyday teaching, conceptual learning of science and some challenges when researching the practice itself, such as lack of time and space for research in school, difficulties in acquiring continuing education to the teacher researcher, the belief that you only can do research in the academy and the sole and exclusive teacher's job is to teach classes. Some possibilities of research on the practice itself are highlighted, such as understanding and / or change practice, valuing the teacher as a processing agent; teacher training for research, expanding its reflexive posture and solidifying its commitment to the students, with the school and community, and the formation of reflective professional communities that contribute to the proposition of new educational practices. In these terms, I support the research of the practice itself, its own characteristics and purposes, as a challenge for the teachers interested in reflecting on the quality of their work, expanding their training and their students, thus contributing to the production of knowledge in the area.
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