A educação alimentar no ensino de ciências : o caso das dietas alimentares

Nutrition education is considered indispensable in the school environment, as adequate and sustainable food is essential for human health. Although the subject in schools part of the transversal themes in the National Curricular Parameters (PCN), still focuses too much on biological aspects of the subject, promoting only the transmission of specific content, in most cases, purely biological focus. Ie the thematic approach does not allow the formation of critical thinking of students and limited classes of science and biology. Thus, this study promotes the realization of a teaching unit about food education at school, developing grants to assist the pedagogical intervention inte rdisciplinary approach encompassing mainly chemical and biological aspects and considering the social, cultural, emotional aspects that relate to the theme . The methodology of this study is characterized as a researchintervention, involving the application of an initial questionnaire to 20 teenagers who were attending different grades of high school. From considerations collected and analyzed developed a courseware that consists of ten educational activities that aim to discuss food education. In a second step, the Teaching Unit prepared was implanted with 21 other students who were in the 8th grade of elementary school, to evaluate the impact and interaction of teaching strategies with that audience. At the end of the application of the proposition the same students completed a final questionnaire. The use of the proposed activities in the teaching material provided the interaction of knowledge alluding to food among students, allowed the reflection patterns checked daily by the environment in which they live. Considering the data obtained, it is concluded that food education must be continuously present in the school environment. In addition, the pedagogical work in this area is not only associated with the discipline of science, but also in other fields of knowledge.