Abstract
Documentary films are usually recommended as didactic resources for Science and Biology classes. Nevertheless, it is yet to be examined how this audiovisual language could be explored in these subjects. Taking as objects of investigation the documentaries Born of fire, of Galapagos series, produced by BBC and Shape of life, belonging to Origins of life collection produced by National Geographic, in this study it was identified and analyzed the documentaries’ science and nature conceptions and evaluated potentialities and limits of their use in the Biology Teaching. From analysis of films’ verbal content, it was observed that both documentaries expressed an idealized image of science and a perspective strongly aesthetic about nature. These elements may instigate debates about nature of science (NoS) and contents related to Evolution, Ecology and Zoology fields from a critical and interdisciplinary approach.
Keywords:
Biology teaching; Science teaching; Teaching material; Film documentary; Nature of science