Scientific inquiry to the first year of elementary school: an articulation between students' speeches and graphical representations

These drawings, in association with the student's speech, had been able to communicate activities, concerning both the studied living being and the materials used in the inquiry-based process. The skills used by the students in their graphic representations are necessary tools for the engagement with scientific culture. Therefore, it is believed that the preparation of drawings, as a way to record, must be encouraged from the early years of the elementary school, leading to the building of new concepts and the growing engagement in scientific literacy.