O ensino de zoologia dos vertebrados para alunos do 7o ano do ensino fundamental em escolas públicas do município de Cruz das Almas, Bahia.

Abstract

This study aimed to examine how is being worked the teaching vertebrate zoology on the seventh grade of elementary in public schools of Cruz das Almas City, Bahia State. It was used the questionnaires with objective and subjective questions to collect the data. The resulting data were analyzed using Microsoft Office Excel 2007 program and to the method of content analysis based on the Bardin (2009) proposal. The main research results were pointed out by teachers who participated of this research, and consists is the lack of infrastructure and learning resources in schools, for example the lack of labs with suitable animal example to be used in the classes of Vertebrate Zoology. In all participants’ schools, the textbook was the unique and indispensable educational resource provided by the municipality for teachers to use in their theoretical and practical classes. It was also found that the lack of educational resources in schools lead teachers to seek new strategies as courses or other methodologies to streamline their classes, thus contributing to the teaching learning process. This research also allowed the determination of the deficit in the number of trained teachers in Biology Degree, and most teachers are graded in different areas teaching science class. Since these results it was given a teaching kit containing some materials to be used during the approach of the vertebrate’s contents, like word searches, quiz and a deck of vertebrate groups to the survey participating schools.