Use of Active Methodologies in Teaching the Zoology Content

Abstract

Active methodologies are strategies that aim to provide meaningful learning to students. However, there is a certain complexity in the Zoology content in High School, and still lack variety of didactic resources for this purpose. This research has the objective of reporting the learning performance of high school students in the subject of Biology, in the Zoology content, mediated by the use of a didactic teaching material. The study was developed in a public school of the state network in the city of Floriano, Piauí. The research was of field following a quali-quantitative approach. The didactic material consisted in the description of the butterfly and moth metamorphosis stages. The data collection was performed by a questionnaire (pre and post-test), the data analysis was by the normalized learning gain test. The students presented a fragmented previous knowledge about the content and after the application of the didactic model it was possible to observe a better assimilation of the content. The data of normalized learning gains were high with values ranging from 0.89 to 1.00. Finally, it suggests that the methodology was efficient in the students' learning, and can be used as a complementary tool in the teaching of this content.