<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">CE</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Creative Education</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2151-4755</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/ce.2014.519195</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">CE-51334</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Social Sciences&amp;Humanities</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Teaching Science Education with Poetry
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>arissa</surname><given-names>Macalão Barbosa</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Braulio</surname><given-names>Fonseca</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Rossano</surname><given-names>André Dal-Farra</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"><sup>3</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Leticia</surname><given-names>Azambuja Lopes</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4"><sup>4</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff4"><addr-line>Bolsista PNPD/CAPES, Canoas, Brazil</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Governo do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Secretaria Estadual de Educa&amp;amp;#231;&amp;amp;#227;o, Canoas, Brazil</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff3"><addr-line>Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Programa de Pós-gradua&amp;amp;#231;&amp;amp;#227;o em Ensino de Ciências e Matemática, Canoas, Brazil</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Prefeitura Municipal de Canoas, Secretaria Municipal de Educa&amp;amp;#231;&amp;amp;#227;o, Canoas, Brazil</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>seduc.prof.larissa@gmail.com(AMB)</email>;<email>bpf_rs@hotmail.com, rossanodf@uol.com.br(BF)</email>;<email>rossanodf@uol.com.br(RAD)</email>;<email>leazambuja@gmail.com(LAL)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>06</day><month>11</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>05</volume><issue>19</issue><fpage>1745</fpage><lpage>1749</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>23</day>	<month>September</month>	<year>2014</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>10</day>	<month>October</month>	<year>2014</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>18</day>	<month>October</month>	<year>2014</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  The main objective of this paper is to describe the process of integration of the disciplines of arts and sciences through poems written by pupils of a public school in southern Brazil. First, the teachers wrote and read a poem in classroom for pupils of the fifth to eighth grade. After, pupils wrote a poem about science subjects, aiming to improve the learning of concepts of physics, chemistry, and biology inspired by their own poetic vision on science and nature. The results address the work to improve the utilization of poetry in learning science, contributing to the development of an interdisciplinary method integrating different sources of knowledge and, mainly, students, teachers, and learning.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Elementary School</kwd><kwd> Science Education</kwd><kwd> Poetry</kwd><kwd> Interdisciplinarity</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>The book “Order Out of Chaos” written by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers inspired an interdisciplinary interaction process utilizing science education and arts education with students of an elementary school. According to  Prigogine and Stengers (1991) , the scientific knowledge, extracted from dreams of an inspired revelation, [...] can be discovered nowadays as a poetic listening about nature and, simultaneously the natural process itself, and start a process of production and invention, forming an open world and a productive and inventive process.</p><p>The beginning of process occurred followed by the expression “listening to the poetic nature” instigating researchers to redeem this view of nature, integrating knowledge derived from different times and spaces.</p><p>According to  Moreira (2002) , there are profound relations among science, culture and arts in the process of human creation. However, this is often not seen in our classrooms, which are characterized by fragmented activities.</p><p>In recent years, teachers have frequently observed books heavily reported in the media as if they were waves of enchantment by fictional characters of J. K. Rowling, Rick Riordan and other authors. Likewise, the decisive inclusion of social media in the lives of students put teachers in a great dilemma: Fight or join in with contemporary cultural movement?</p><p>In this case, imbued with the need to integrate the knowledge of science with other aspects of daily life with the care setting boundaries between what is relevant and what needs to be viewed with caution by teachers, teachers sought to build, with students, an educational process at the same time is exciting and that may be facilitated by the enchantment of scientific knowledge.</p><p>Given these assumptions, this study aims to establish a starting point intending new educational practices whose underlying principles are the integration of knowledge across disciplines and activities performed by students outside school, as well as the promotion of learning in science in other fields of knowledge.</p><p> Fazenda (2008)  points out that interdisciplinarity means attitude about knowledge involving the culture of the place where teachers are formed.</p><p>The use of composition as a teaching method in areas that go beyond literature or language is widely adopted in the teaching of sciences and mathematics  (Faria, 1998; Santos, 2001; Zanetic, 2006; Galv&#227;o, 2006; Silva &amp; Reigota, 2010) .</p><p>The objective of this study is to construct educational practices integration of the disciplines of arts and sciences through poems written by pupils of a public school in southern Brazil.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Method</title><p>Students attending classes between the 5<sup>th</sup> and the 8<sup>th</sup> grades of an elementary public school in southern Brazil were required to write poems. In total, seven groups of students participated, totalizing more than one hundred students.</p><p>With more than 300 thousand inhabitants and approximately 2470 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>, the city has an HDI of 0.75 and per capita GDP is close to $6500.00, although there is significant heterogeneity in the socioeconomic profile of the population. There are more than 49,000 primary school enrollment and approximately 11,000 in high school.</p><p>The theoretical framework developed by Ilya Prigogine was supplemented with a literature review of sciences textbooks and the evaluation of the knowledge provided therein, which could be used from the poetic perspective.</p><p>However, when the sciences teacher walked into the teachers’ room, she overheard another teacher saying, “My students are glued to Facebook”, and added, “If they are always logged on, I should be too”. Later on, the teacher posted a poem on the social network. To her surprise, on the following class the students asked about what she had written and if it she had written the poem herself.</p><p>Initially, a pedagogic proposal was presented to the school board. The aim was to challenge students to write poetry about sciences and nature. The pedagogic directions for the process and the pedagogic boundaries of the formal evaluation of the poems written were outlined, and the first moves were started to motivate students to write their poems.</p><p>In each group, two poems written by the teacher were red at the beginning of classes, on two different days. Additionally, two other poems, also written by the teacher were published on her Facebook wall.</p><p>Facebook was chosen as a medium to divulge poems for different reasons. First, it was discovered that “students are always logged on”. Therefore, it became clear that they would easily publish one poem on a popular social network that they use often. Moreover, there is the possibility to divulge poems quite easily, which affords students to read one another’s poems and reinforces the emotional links between them, who usually attend the same class or at least the same school, even though sometimes they have never actually met. Another aspect is that Facebook is an “effective and affective platform” for teachers and students, since the sciences teacher and even members of the school board would post positive comments about poems. In sum, all participants of the school community would have access to these poetic productions, even family members and school board officials.</p><p>A deadline was defined for the posting of poems on the teacher’s Facebook wall. Poems were posted according to the rules defined previously.</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Results and Discussion</title><p>The results presented are preliminary, since the process of writing poetry has not ended yet. In total, so far 57 poems were published. The main topics are the solar system, the oxygen flow in the respiratory system, and, mainly, the periodic table. Some poems written by students are reproduced at the end of article.</p><p>Students participated actively in this project. The literary production of poems shows that the aim of stimulating imagination, integrating knowledge and contributing with inclusion of students was met. This confirms the ideas of  Bachelard (1994) , according to which the learning process has to be dynamic and connected to the imagination and creative capacity of students. Subsequently, students read their poems to their classmates, adding their own personal impressions about the process and developing communication skills, which is an important aspect in personal and professional life.</p><p>The continuity of activities was mediated by the narrowing of the conceptual dimension involved in sciences and the text production process, helping students to integrate knowledge that they already master and develop new knowledge that is useful in the comprehension of the fundamental concepts of scientific education.</p><p>This study shed new light on the potentials to be developed by students that sometimes do not emerge in activities carried out in school.</p><p>The educational process needs to integrate knowledge of different sources, constructing new kind of practices because the life of students are made not only in classrooms but also the readings and look at the world around them. Science, Literature, popular knowledge? Whatever? The student needs to develop all the potential they possess and that can contribute to their lives.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>Appendix</title>Poems about the Solar System<p>The solar system Is beautiful to see</p><p>But I cannot touch it</p><p>There is Pluto</p><p>So small it is</p><p>That it is no planet anymore.</p><p>Now it is a dwarf!</p><p>Mercury was named after a chemical</p><p>And Venus looks like an egg</p><p>With 1% of water to give</p><p>Mars even has a volcano</p><p>And four seasons.</p><p>Jupiter is the largest</p><p>With 100 Earths within</p><p>Saturn has its rings</p><p>Uranus is the newest and hardest</p><p>Rock hard and full of ice</p><p>Neptune is the sky-blue planet!</p><p>Earth is full of people</p><p>Who do not sense the value of this gift!</p><p>In our solar system</p><p>There is Mercury and Saturn</p><p>And frozen planets</p><p>The gaseous, lighter ones</p><p>The new planet is, yes, Pluto</p><p>A dwarf globe</p><p>People say, yes it is!</p><p>Scientists say, no it is not!</p><p>Some are also made of water</p><p>Frozen is the sea</p><p>Oceans on Earth are several</p><p>No air there is in Mercury</p><p>Our planet spins and spins</p><p>Spins nonstop</p><p>If it did stop suddenly</p><p>We earthlings would land on the Moon</p><p>Always pure, always beautiful</p><p>Is our universe</p><p>I shall end like a sonnet</p><p>Sticking to my verse</p>Poems about the Respiratory System<p>This is about the respiratory system</p><p>Which makes us breathe</p><p>Let the adventure begin</p><p>Respiratory system</p><p>From end to end of this mayhem</p><p>That starts on nose and mouth</p><p>There goes oxygen down this jinx</p><p>Through larynx and pharynx</p><p>To trachea it is</p><p>Knocking at the lungs and diaphragm</p><p>So it travels and is given!</p><p>Carbon dioxide is released</p><p>And thus it is forsaken!</p><p>It starts at the nose</p><p>Where oxygen comes in</p><p>All perfect, who knows…</p><p>It’s a genius thing</p><p>It goes on and on</p><p>Larynx, trachea, lungs</p><p>Filled with air</p><p>These are the organs, and their roles</p><p>That makes us breathe</p><p>Inside lungs there are alveoli</p><p>Where oxygen and carbon dioxide</p><p>Swap places</p><p>And even though there is a lot to say</p><p>I say goodbye to this jesting rhyme</p>Poems about Chemistry<p>In Helium I laughed and had fun</p><p>In Sulphur got cross, life was hard</p><p>And on Sodium I wept</p><p>But things fly by, and with Oxygen</p><p>I live and will be kept</p><p>From the bitter that sodium begun</p><p>In chemistry opposites come near</p><p>The different repel</p><p>Experiments show</p><p>It is easy to see</p><p>In humans is the way round</p><p>Similar joins similar</p><p>And if there is chemistry in between</p><p>There will be joy to live</p></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.51334-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Bachelard, G. 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