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Science classes in the eighth yearof Elementary Education: a curricular project proposal as a process under construction

This paper presents the planning and development of a curricular project built as a process, with the intention of organizing the methodological strategies used, like problem solving, and to fulfill a pedagogic proposal in a constructivist approach. The research was carried out with an eighth year Elementary Education science class. The participation of a teacher-researcher capable of making the interlocution between theory and practice, and the dialogue between teacher and students, turned out to be determining elements to structure the curricular project, searching for a scientific concepts' approach, at the same time that the needs and interests of the group could be discussed. The classroom interaction and the students' productions, from the strategies used, were analysis and discussion components in order to guide the proposal development, and they modified the behavior and habits of the subjects engaged in the process.

Science teaching; Science school curriculum; Interaction; Science education research; Basic education


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