STORYTELLING AS AN ACTIVE METHODOLOGY IN THE DISCUSSION OF SOLID WASTE AND ENVIRONMENT ON SCIENCE TEACHING

Abstract

Science and Biology Teaching should instigate research, making it more personal, tangible and inspiring. In this sense, Active Methodologies can collaborate as a strategy to help educators achieve objectives in the classroom. Storytelling, as an example of Active Methodology, can help learning, adding concepts such as learning by association, familiarity and empathy, focusing on the student's affection through the story told, generating more interest in the student and reducing school dropout rates. Therefore, this work sought to investigate how Storytelling can help in learning about Solid Waste and the Environment. The theme developed arose from the need to discuss current teaching-learning processes and their developments, which are widely debated in the social and school spheres. For the development of this work, a basic research was carried out, with an exploratory and descriptive character, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, in which, using a Didactic Sequence, it was proposed to verify whether Storytelling would be well received and would influence the learning from students in the sixth year of Elementary School. According to the results obtained, Storytelling can meet the expected premises for an Active Methodology if it is associated with some auxiliary strategies, such as asking thought-provoking questions, aiming for more effective student participation, in addition to the use of content fixation activities during the narrative of the stories.