A criação de histórias em quadrinhos com ferramenta para o ensino do funcionamento de vacinas contra COVID-19

Abstract

In 2020 Covid-19 pandemic caused by the virus SARS-Cov-2 paralyzed the normal life, causing uncountable victims from severe acute respiratory syndrome.All parts of the society were affected, with highest impact on the health sector due to occupation of almost 100% of its bed capacity. Education was also affected, as classes were canceled and emergency remote teaching had to be established to attend the demands. Later in 2020, research and development of vaccines to combat and control the new coronavirus started.Market launch of vaccines against Covid-19, in record time, caused great repercussion and questions rose about their effectiveness, generating several fake news related to them. Hence, this research monograph seeks to address the point “vaccines during a pandemic situation” as many people refused to get vaccinated.Our main objective was to explain how vaccines work and to show the relationship of this topics with biochemistry, having as public undergraduate chemistry students. We devided our work into three stages: First stage: An extensive literature research was carried out to serve as basis for the upcoming activities. Second stage: field research was conducted with undergraduate chemistry students of the Biochemistry Class at Federal University of Pampa - Campus Bagé. Finally during the third stage, a didactic sequence was applied that focused on comics as a tool for chemistry teaching, addressing ideas from the area of covid-19 vaccines. The activity was developed during five meetings, four synchronous and one unsynchronous. In the last meeting, a webinar was held by the students to show the comics produced by them about covid-19 vaccines. The application of the DS gave the expected results, as the students demonstrated a greater understanding of the subject of covid-19 vaccines, as well as its mechanism of action. In addition the students acquired the ability to argue about and position themselves in respect to covid-19 vaccines and fake news related to the vaccine.