USAGE OF THE BODY AS A PEDAGOGYCAL TOOL: AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL WHICH DISCONSIDERES THE ABSENCE OF SPECIFIC RESOURCES FOR THE TEACHINGS OF BIOCHEMISTRY

Frequently, scientific concepts are altered through scientific outbreaks, but little of that knowledge is passed on to students, especially those from Middle and High School, therefore the complexity of the information involved makes this approach more difficult. Nonetheless, these subject matters which awake people’s curiosity are talked about more and more as times change. A good example of that are both DNA and metabolism, generally relating these to subjects involving emerging diseases such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer, among others. If the subject matter is so popular among means of communication, why not use a more technical approach on these topics in the classroom, showing students different ways of understanding and grasping concepts, basically though fun and playful activities. In this assignment two playful activities are described, both demonstrating, very practically, an alternative way of teaching mitotic cellular division process and physiology of the respiratory system to Middle School students, involving the discovering of important concepts to the comprehension of molecule phenomenon on the subject. Yet these activities have presented themselves as being of low production cost and easy implementation.

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