Cultural artifacts such as the bow and arrow help to tell part of the history of several human
groups who lived in different geographical regions of our planet. In this work, this artifact is
problematized as an inter-transdisciplinary theme used to study distinct curricular contents of
Primary School. Thus, we aim to describe, in a reflective approach, the work trajectory developed
during a pedagogical workshop that started with the bow and arrow as an integrating
theme for primary school contents. During the research, which was carried out in September
of 2019 at Santo Afonso State School, in Belém do Pará, we developed a workshop with twenty
third-grade students the title of which was “the bow and arrow as an integrating theme”. The
workshop aimed to address curricular contents related to Social Studies, Language, Science and
Mathematics in an integrating approach, with the bow and arrow as a starting point. The pedagogical
activities worked towards acknowledging the bow and arrow’s history, contextualizing
knowledge and promoting reading and writing practice based on the comic book genre. We concluded
that the students felt familiarized and motivated when developing skills that dealt with
themes within their sociocultural context, which allowed for the promotion of situations of pedagogical
interaction and exchange between the learner and the object of learning. Furthermore,
the integrating activities, developed either orally or in written form, were essential to making the
students realize that knowledge of a given domain requires skills from other segments in order
to be assimilated. We also verified that the workshop was an instrument for the production of
knowledge, for it constituted a dialogue space between teacher and students.
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