Science in Brazilian folk literature: rescuing some origins of literature, art and science in the classroom

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to present a didactic sequence carried out by Science and Portuguese Literature teachers, worked with students of the 7^th year of Elementary School from a school in Sao Paulo, which included the elaboration of a folk literature in a folio about Biomes of Brazil. As an approach illuminated by the History of Science, a woodcut was presented as a technique for illustrating works on animals and plants specially between the centuries XVI and XVII. Subsequently, the teachers focused the production of folk literature in Brazil in the 19^th century, whose authorship was attributed to the use of the woodcut technique in the Northeast region of Brazil. As a conclusion of the activity, students have produced poems with the proposed themes with metric and rime, organized in folio. The woodcut technique was used in the production of the cover for the poem.