Investigative skills. Teaching Based on Modeling. Models and Modeling.
Investigative activities are increasingly common in the context of science education.
This is due to the great need to reformulate the teaching-learning process in this area.
Characterized by being a type of activity in which students take an active role in their
learning, building their knowledge from the experiences of strategies where the
processes are analogous to those used for the development of knowledge in science.
In this sense, teaching based on modeling, as an investigative approach, shows itself
as an adequate strategy to contemplate such an objective. Teaching science from a
methodology based on modeling, consists of inserting students in activities of
successive model construction. This contributes not only to an adequate construction
of knowledge by them, but also to the development of skills pertinent to the scientific
investigation process. Skills that are required and / or used in the different stages of
the modeling process and that collaborate for the development of a more authentic
science education. In this perspective, we aim to: analyze the development of research
skills from a teaching proposal based on the construction of models. In order to achieve
this goal, we will use a qualitative methodology, with the participation of students from
the Chemistry course, from the Campus do Agreste of the Federal University of
Pernambuco, located in the city of Caruaru-Pernambuco. The construction of the data
of this research will be made from four moments of synchronous encounter, in which
activities will be developed with the students, followed by moments of interview with
the participants. The instruments for recording the data will be: video recording of
synchronous moments; semi-structured interviews and artifacts produced by students
(activities and models developed). Data analysis will be carried out based on the
adaptation made to the skills analysis tool related to the modeling process developed
by Maia.