Debate regrado como ferramenta para o ensino de microbiologia em nível médio.

Abstract

Although the concepts worked by microbiology are applied to a multitude of important everyday processes, its teaching in schools is often reduced to the condition of pathogens. This analogy directly harms the appreciation of these microscopic beings, which generates numerous erroneous associations and the lack of interest on the part of students towards the concepts studied. Therefore, this proposal aims to create and validate a didactic sequence based on regulated debate as a teaching tool for the purpose of learning microbiology at the high school level. The didactic sequence was organized into three moments and applied to 2nd grade of high school students. The results demonstrated that regulated debate is a useful tool for microbiology teaching since it showed learning gains and provided the development of personal/interpersonal skills, in addition to contributing to the investigation of prior knowledge and alternative conceptions.