Corrida de barquinhos a vapor no ensino de física térmica: uma proposta de experimentação

Abstract

The teaching of Physics in High School nowadays requires a lot of commitment from everyone involved in the teaching and learning process and the biggest challenge, then, is the adoption of methodologies that arouse the scientific curiosity of students with a view to meaningful learning, in order to assist students in the reconstruction of knowledge, in the formation of new concepts and in the understanding of how they can improve the world. Thus, this work aimed to propose and apply as an educational product, a teaching project that integrates experimentation and conceptual maps as a methodological possibility to optimize the study of Thermal Physics concepts, applied in a class of the 2nd year of High School at Colégio Estadual Santana de Tapejara – High School and Normal School, in shift work. This proposal was based on the theoretical assumptions of qualitative research, using questionnaires, conceptual maps and experiments. The results made it evident that the strategies used were very well received by the students and that the proposal constituted an important tool to indicate significant learning, since the students were able to establish important relationships on the concepts of thermodynamics studied.