Utilização da metodologia ativa PBL - Problem Based Learning - para abordagem da obesidade nas aulas de biologia do ensino médio em escola pública

Abstract

The active teaching methodologies are increasingly present in the various fields and levels of education, ensuring the centrality of student learning, changing its passive position to active in the process and aiming for its integral development, not only from his academic knowledge, but also of the skills needed to develop their own life in society. Thus, the present work aims to develop an educational material containing a didactic sequence. This is the product to be used as an aid to teachers, supplying the information needs about the implementation of the Problem-Based Learning methodology in the approach to obesity, presenting an experience report regarding its application, within the discipline of Biology, whose programmatic content meets the proposed theme, in a class of the second year of high school in the State of Rio de Janeiro. The application of the PBL methodology was structured in a learning cycle composed of a sequence of specific moments, initially using a problem situation related to obesity. Students with their prior knowledge, individual research, and information sharing with their peers seek to reach and present the appropriate solution to the problem, and become able to disseminate the learning gained to other classes in the school unit. The teacher during the process should act as tutor and mediator, to direct the PBL methodology, so that the proposed learning objectives are achieved.