Stop-Motion no ensino de astronomia: uma ferramenta para o estudo da lua nos anos finais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

Animations are popular among children, young people, and adults, and can serve as a technological resource for the process of teaching and learning. The stop-motion is an animation technique that can be developed in the classroom. In the teaching of astronomy, it is difficult for students to understand how spatial dynamics occur. Science teachers, on the other hand, feel the need for specific training when the subject is Astronomy. Therefore, this work proposes the use of stop-motion animation for the study and construction of knowledge related to the Moon through the suggestion of an animation workshop, in which students must produce a short stop-motion movie that simulates the Moon's movements. The research methodology consists of a bibliographic survey on the application of stop-motion in astronomy education and the production of a stop-motion animation about the Moon's hidden side, with the proposal of a didactic workshop in a hybrid format (in the distance and presently). The work aims to contribute to the transformation of Astronomy teaching from the final years of elementary school, with the development of two educational products: a didactic sequence as a workshop suggestion for the production of a movie related to lunar movements and the movie itself produced in Stop-Motion.