PROMOTING ACTIVE LEARNING IN BIOLOGY: VIRTUAL LAB AND MAKER APPROACH

Abstract

Practical activities in the discipline of Biology may require expensive and difficult to access equipment. The maker culture, an active methodology, emerges as a viable alternative for the creation of low-cost educational activities. Thus, we planned and carried out activities with a virtual histology laboratory in the second and third years of high school, in a private school on the outskirts of São Paulo with few laboratory resources. This work has as its methodological approach the qualitative research, of the experience report type. After the activity, the students were invited to answer a questionnaire to express their opinions on the effectiveness of the approach and its impact on interest in the topics worked. The results showed an increase in students' interest in histology, the use of maker culture and the virtual laboratory, enabling significant learning.