Selection and management illustrations to the cell teaching: a propose didactic

Abstract

The cell is a biological contents of abstract nature that is very important to comprehend the living matter and its relationship with the environment. Researchers review conceptual errors in the students and difficulties to create images and mental models related with the cell; our experience has not been different. That experience was the reason to fulfill this effort where it was analized the illustrations management as strategy to the cell teaching in Basic Education, evidencing that these are used but little profited and utilized inappropriately. Since this experience we propose didactic guidelines to the selection and management illustrations of the cell in the classroom and its physiological processes, like evaluative strategies to verify the mental creation that students do about it.