Abstract

DANTAS, Mário André Trindade  and  ARAUJO, Maria Inêz Oliveira. Rev. electrón. investig. educ. cienc. [online]. 2006, vol.1, n.2, pp.27-38. ISSN 1850-6666.

The teaching of Natural Sciences in secundary schools in Brazil, still made in a descriptive way with excess of terminologies, contributing to reinforce just encyclopedic and theoric teaching, stimulating the passivity, and presenting as main objective the vestibular exam, that requires irrelevants and fragmentary knowledge. The Nacional Curriculars Parameters to the secundary schools suggests the adoption of methodologies of active and interactive learning that permit the students their emancipation. This way, escaping from the tradicional models of teaching, was created an educational Cd-rom about the Sergipe fossils, this resource has as main objective, transmit to the students of secundary schools the contents about Paleontology and Sergipe fossils in a ludic and interactive way.

Keywords : Cd-rom; Paleontology teaching; Fossils; Sergipe; Brazil.

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