A importância do uso do laboratório nas aulas de ciências

Abstract

This work had as subject the importance of the use of the laboratory on science classes. The use of experiments in science classes is an important tool at the learning process of students because to understand the theory it is necessary to conduct an experiment. It is noteworthy that experimentation can be developed in different conceptions: demonstrative, inductive empiricist, deductive rationalist, or constructivist. Experiments were performed on physics, chemistry and biology laboratories on the 7th grade A on junior high school of a private school. After that, questionnaires and interviews were performed with the students of this grade to detect positive and negative aspects on these activities and the repercussion. It waspossible to check that classes in the laboratories are very important for the students because they provide a greater significance on the contents studied than simply memorizing information.