Sequência didática com uso de chave de identificação digital em disciplina remota de Entomologia Médica na graduação

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic presented several challenges for Higher Education in Biosciences, especially in practical activities. While some professors preferred to postpone their practical classes, others sought alternatives to deal with the limitations of the moment. This work presents a didactic sequence for a remote discipline of Medical Entomology in the undergraduation. This sequence uses of BioTax and Google Drive. It addresses Muscomorpha taxa, Forensic Entomology and ectoparasites in ten activities; being three of taxonomic identification of specimens and one of creation of a digital identification key. This sequence was applied in two classes of the second semester of 2020 at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. The 38 students who had access to a computer performed all the proposed activities. Most were successful, but some errors were identified. Thus, the proposed didactic sequence is an interesting resource to overcome some challenges of remote teaching in Biosciences.