Um estudo sobre a utilização do trilho multifuncional no ensino de Física a partir de unidades de ensino potencialmente significativas

Abstract

This Dissertation developed and researched experimental activities from a courseware called Trilho Multifuncional (Multifunctional Rail) (GOYA and HALIBI, 2011), in order to face some of the problems relating to the implementation of experimental activities in Physics teaching in high school, as evidenced in the literature in the last decades. From these applications it was developed two Potentially Meaningful Teaching Unit (PMTU) (MOREIRA, 2005), based on the theories of Meaningful Learning and Multimode and Multiple Representations. The first course was addressed to high school students, and the second, to the Physics teachers belonging to the Londrina State Education Center (NRE – Núcleo Estadual de Educação). The survey data were obtained from questionnaires, observations and audio recordings, both the first and the second course. The quantitative and qualitative analysis results of the first experimental activities showed that the improvements provided students towards learning incentive for studying Physical and conceptual gain. The results obtained from the teachers, in the second course, confirmed that the experimental practices are still little used in high school and they showed that teachers were motivated to work with the multifunctional rail due to its convenience, low cost and applicability. It is expected that many high school teachers to use the multifunction rail and the two Potentially Meaningful Teaching Unit (PMTU), which is the appendix of this work.