Sala de aula: recursos didáticos visuais relacionados ao ensino de química no município de Toledo-PR

Abstract

The science education has been facing many challenges and the main one is to awaken the interest and active participation of students in the learning process, being the passive behavior of students in the classroom, an usual complaint of teachers. Students usualliy say that the contents are difficult and of little or no use.Considering that meaningful learning is desirable for the science content and that this happens with the active participation of teachers and students, demanding an attractive teaching and stimulating school environment, a research was developed in order to verify the presence of visual and/or interactive teaching resources as posters, maquettes, illustrations, definitions, Periodic Table and other forms of leaving the science content exposed in the classroom, providing the contact of vstudents with them Even when not in class A significant percentage of the State Public Schools of Toledo-PR were visited and photographed, attending 40.2% of students enrolled in the Middle Regular Education in 2015, the schools being chosen downtown and suburbs with different socioeconomic realities. It was noted that teaching resources as a formof visual stimulation and / or interactive, fixed or exposed in order to remain at the disposal of the student during his stay in the classroom and related to science education, are completely absent from classrooms in high school, showing that there is room for teachers to develop their creativity and dedication providing to their students more opportunities for interaction with the knowledge imparted to overcome major challenges in the learning process.