This work reports an interdisciplinary activity on the astronomy of Brazil's indigenous peoples, conducted at a public technical high school with first-year classes, integrating Physics and History. It introduced students to alternative ways of understanding the sky, valuing indigenous knowledge and cosmologies while challenging Eurocentric perspectives in science. After classroom instruction, students used Stellarium software to locate the Moon and the Ema and Homem Velho constellations within a Tupi-Guarani sky. Subsequently, they observed the Moon through a Newtonian telescope and identified constellations with the naked eye. The students' accounts demonstrated the importance of traditional knowledges in shaping a local astronomical identity.

Biography:

Aline Tiara Mota is a professor of physics at the Federal Institute of Southern Minas Gerais. She previously completed her masters at the Federal University of Itajuba. She is a PhD student at Federal University of Itajuba in Science education. Her research interest include technologies for astronomy education and Ethnoastronomia.