Caderno de atividades experimentais: um guia para auxiliar o uso do kit 1 SEED/DEB

Abstract

The present dissertation proposes a experimental activities notebook as a way of assisting use of the SEED/DEB physics kit 1, as well as investigating its pedagogical potential with the teachers of the basic education of the Regional Nucleus of Education of Campo Mourão and students of the third year of the course Technical in Computing of the Federal Technological University of Paraná, Campo Mourão câmpus. This kit was sent by the Secretary of Education of Paraná in 2012 to all public schools that offer high school, but did not present any manual or proposal of experimental activity, which made it difficult for teachers to use it. The experimental activities notebook was developed due to the request of some professors of the state schools of Campo Mourão and region and for its elaboration were used as reference the principles and assumptions that base the use of the experimentation as strategy in the physics teaching. It contains 10 experimental activities involving the subjects of Mechanics, Calorimetry and Oscillations. Considering the nature and the objectives of the present work, we opted to develop a qualitative exploratory approach. For the data collection, were used questionnaires and field diary. The obtained results revealed signs that experimental activities notebook has the potential to assist the teachers in the elaboration and execution of the practical classes developed in laboratory. The data also point to a motivational factor related to the use of the kit, since during its implementation the teachers were involved in all proposed activities. The activities developed with the students allowed a better understanding of the contents covered by the practices; in addition, allowed the manipulation of materials, discussion and reflection of the practice performed, which is believe to be important for the interpretation of the associated physical phenomena and relevant for physics teaching.