ABSTRACT
To contribute to the field of didactic planning and expand knowledge and approaches to new ways of understanding, narrating, and constituting the natural world regarding fauna, one present this investigation on teaching-learning sequences produced by preservice science and biology teachers. This article discusses teaching-learning sequences whose core activities converge towards the development of knowledge that integrate aspects of zoology, environment, and society. The main proposals, possibilities and limits based on the following themes are analyzed: anthropomorphization; traditional knowledge, aesthetics, and animal resources; zoos, collection, and animal ethics.
Keywords
Didactic Planning; Teacher Training; Zoology
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Note: Text Translation for Figure 1: Page 3 You decide to attack the pampas deer. It was a good choice. They run fast and it makes you tired. But you are faster, all jaguars are fast runners. Your attack on the pampas deer is classic: you go straight for the victim’s skull, kill it on the spot. The rest of the pack managed to escape, but you got a big prey… That should be enough for the next few days. à Go to page 4 Page 4 After a few days you start to feel some pain… They are labor pains. You are about to give birth to 3 cubs. You are very happy, those 100 days went by too fast. Finally, all of them are born and doing well. They are two females and one male. Jaguar cubs are born blind and only begin to see after 15 days, so now they are completely dependent on you! It is going to be 3 tough months! You will have to hunt to feed your cubs as well. You don’t feel safe leaving your cubs alone in the burrow while you go out to look for food. You know that other animals can attack them. But you are hungry and so are they, you need to hunt… What do you do? 1) You can’t leave the cubs in the burrow; you decide to stay with them. You can endure hunger and breastfeed them for a few more days. à Go to page 5 2) You are a great hunter, quickly able to find prey. They will spend some time alone, but you will soon come back with food. à Go to page 6 Page 9 As a good jaguar always does, you set up the ambush and pounced at the first sight of the owl’s distraction. The pounce would have been perfect. But the owl noticed and flew away… Unfortunately, there was nothing you could do. Your cubs were alone, and you are still hungry. You have been out of the den for a long time, but you see another pack of bush dogs a little ahead. What is the best thing to do? 1) Go back to the burrow, nurse and protect your cubs. à Go to page 11 2) Go after the pack of bush dogs, after all, you need to feed yourself to be able to take care of your cubs. à Go to page 10 Page 10 You then return to the burrow with the bush dog. Your cubs will be proud of you. It will be their first time eating real food other than milk. They are growing… In a little while, they will go out hunting with you and they will learn how to fend for themselves… When you arrive, you don’t find one of your cubs. You don’t want to believe it!! What happened???? That is when you see a snake crawling, it is a Boa constrictor… Huge! These snakes kill by constriction, they are very efficient predators. You become desperate; you should not have left them alone… What to do? 1) Attack the boa constrictor, it may want to strike you or the other two cubs à Go to page 11 2) Abandon that territory with your cubs, avoiding another snake attack à Go to page 12. Source: 
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