O tempo geológico no ensino fundamental e médio: os estudantes e os livros didáticos

Abstract

The analysis of the geologic column consulted from different didatic books hás made possible comprehend how the geologic time appears in the evolution teaching, as a discipline of the biology in the high school, and in the discipline of geography in the school focus in the origin and the transformation of the earth through the geologic era. It was possible to observe uncountable heterogeneous information, and didatic problems, revealing troubles of structural and cognitive order, which difficult teachers and students in the understanding of the deep time, introducing unordered and ommited events. It was highlighted the main steps of the construction of the geologic column as well as the characters involved: citing James Hutton, John Playfair, Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin. These were responsible by the changes of the cientific-filosofic thinking of the Europe during the XVIII and XIX, destroying the old pragmatism of the faith of a planet with 6000 years old. The temporal scales involved with the Pre-Cambrian mega interval, with 4.0 billion years or representing circa 85% of the geologic time, many times was presented graphically shorted or omitted in in the geologic columns revised. It has been detected too graphic troubles with the Eon Fanerozoic, showing over dimensioning of the era and periods without any real motive, and highligting frequently the Cenozoic Era with distinct degree of importance, however it has one of the shortest length in the geologic column, with about 65 million years. The cognitive comprehension of the geologic time is complex and the didatic books softly help your learning. The fossil evidence are considered decisive to the comprehension of the geologic time. As part of the work, it was analyzed some interviews with children and teenagers living near animals and plants fossils samples, to comprehend how the neighborhood evidence could had influence the ideas that made it about the planet past. The manuscript and discussing didatic implications, from different perspectives.

História da Vida no conteúdo textual de livros didáticos de Biologia do Ensino Médio

“…Quanto à atualização do conteúdo, identificamos apenas três (3) trechos, presentes em dois volumes de uma mesma coleção, que versavam sobre a introdução, ao final do Pré-Cambriano, do período conhecido como Ediacarano (OLIVEIRA, 2006).…”