Uma proposta de sequência didática para o ensino de eletrostática

Abstract

In this work, we describe the application of a Teaching Sequence of the concepts of Electric Charge, Electrical Power and Electric Field in a Public Teaching School, in Pato Branco, Paraná. This Teaching Sequence was elaborated based in the assumptions of the Significant Learning Theory from David Ausubel and applied in two classes of 3rd grade in the first two months of 2016. The instruments used to the data collection were: the activities realized by the students, the questionnaires of previous knowledge identification and knowledge evaluation and the instructional resources evaluation questionnaire. The results were analyzed in a qualitative way. These analysis showed that the students appropriated, gradually, the concepts worked in the Teaching Sequence and they were able to apply them in the right way to solve the proposed problem situations. The obtained results in the instructional resources evaluation questionnaire indicate that the practice of the Experiment, the Comic books and the Didactic games contributed to awaken the interest of the students to the contents of the Teaching Sequence. In this way, the results indicated that a Teaching Sequence elaborated based in the assumptions of the Significant Learning Theory to introduce the concepts of Electric Charge, Electrical Power and Electric Field had a positive result.