SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC QUESTION ABOUT OIL SPILLS ON NORTHEASTERN BRAZILIAN BEACHES: POSSIBILITY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARGUMENTATION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCIENCE CLASSES
Argumentation; Socio-scientific issues; oil spill; Elementary School.
Science teaching has been undergoing changes that aim to provide students with training for the development of a more critical reading of their reality. In this direction, a social practice that has the potential for the construction of knowledge in a more critical way is argumentation, which is one of the elements of scientific practices in the school context. Considering the controversies that permeate the biggest oil spill disaster in the South Atlantic Ocean, which occurred in 2019 on the northeastern coast, this research seeks to analyze how a socio-scientific question (SSQ) on this topic can contribute to the development of argumentation in science classes in final years of elementary school. For this, a didactic sequence (DS) was elaborated, which incorporates the SSQ, to be implemented in a class of the 9th year of elementary school, from a private school in Recife, Pernambuco. The DS consists of six classes of 50 minutes each for carrying out the proposed activities and solving the SSQ. The answers, actions, discursive interactions and productions developed by students in the activities will be analyzed based on analytical categories, which refer to: identification of argumentative processes, analysis of their nature, sources of evidence and teaching strategies used in these processes. We believe that the development of argumentation can contribute to the process of construction of scientific knowledge by students at school.