AN ADVENTURE ON EVEREST: INVESTIGATIVE AND INTERACTIVE TEACHING SEQUENCE ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Altitude, Investigative Teaching, Respiratory Physiology, Comics.
The Physiology of the Respiratory System is complex and interdisciplinary, requiring teaching materials that motivate teachers and that involve the active participation of students in the construction and learning of new concepts. Thus, the objective of this TCM was to prepare as a final product an E-book containing an investigative and interactive didactic sequence (SD) on the theme Physiology of the Respiratory System. The didactic sequence was elaborated from a climb to Mount Everest involving the challenges of respiratory physiology at high altitudes and, with the search for problem solutions to survive the climb. At the end of the SD, students will prepare a comic book (HQ), as a proposed playful activity, about a climb to Mount Everest, with the characters and scenarios described by the author of the TCM so that the story to be told occurs with more reality, motivating students to solve climbing challenges. In addition, the HQ will involve other topics of interest, such as environmental pollution and the influence of anthropic actions in environments considered inhospitable. As a complement to learning about Physiology of the Respiratory System and adaptive aspects, a bonus step was added to understand the respiratory mechanisms used by amphibians in high altitude environments, in order to promote reflection on different respiratory strategies and how the same environmental challenge is faced. by different groups of organisms.