Scientific-themed theater: a playful possible pedagogical proposal on non-formal education of elementary school students

Abstract

The teacher of natural sciences to work the scientific content in the classroom does not always succeed room largely of cases due to classes models used. In an attempt to overcome this occurrence, the teacher's role needs to be focused on teaching practices that allow a better teaching and learning. Among the many teaching resources that the teacher can make use in the classroom, to make her more attractive and dynamic classes, we present in this work the scientific-themed theater, which aimed to promote awareness of the health problem, dengue through the staging of a play entitled: "run that dengue is coming". The study was conducted with students from 5th to 7th year of elementary school in two public schools in the municipal schools in the municipality of Salvaterra Pará. At the end of staging a questionnaire was applied in the classes to see if there was theme of learning in question, and based on analysis of the responses it was concluded that the students had a better understanding of the content through the theatrical performance, they aroused the interest and raved about the way it was presented content. Thus, the theater was configured as a means of transmitting scientific knowledge, because its use has facilitated the compression of the students about the topic discussed.