Perguntas sobre o tema “Terra em transformação” nos manuais escolares de ciências naturais do 7º ano: avaliação em função do nível cognitivo e da localização

Textbooks should promote the development of problemsolving, critical and creative thinking skills and competences to plan search on sciences. One of the important strategies, in the teaching of Natural Sciences, is the questions formulation technique. The aim of the study was to evaluate the questions, considering the cognitive level and the location, in the theme Earth Transformation, included in four editions of the 7th grade Natural Sciences textbooks from 2012 and the previous four textbooks, two from 2006, one 2007 and one 2011. Eight textbooks from five publishers were selected and adocument and content analysis was performed. In order to assess the questions, the subthemes Internal structure of the Earth, The Earth's internal dynamics and Consequences of the internal dynamics of the Earth were analysed. In the 2012 textbooks, there was an increased in the high cognitive level questions, however the majority, in all textbooks were of low cognitive level.