Produto educacional: uma ferramenta para auxiliar no ensino de eletrônica orgânica

Abstract

Education in Brazil presents challenges in several aspects, such as initial and continuous training of teachers, pedagogical practice, structural, financial, social, and cultural, among others. Within the discipline of chemistry, organic chemistry is the central area responsible for studying compounds that have carbon as the main element in their constitution. Although it is extremely rich and subject to interesting studies in high school, this area is usually limited by classes. That presents only rules of naming and identification of organic compounds. From this context, the objective of this work was to propose the creation of an educational product (a tool to help the teacher in the classroom) with the central theme of carbon electronics. To this end, it was intended to: a) contextualize the teaching of organic chemistry and the content of carbon electronics; b) investigate how existing educational products contribute to the training of teachers and, consequently, to the teaching and learning process of students; c) develop an educational product considering the content of carbon electronics. From this perspective, the methodological referrals aimed to fulfill the research objectives and were characterized as qualitative research. The vast area of organic chemistry applied in basic education was explored for the product development process, and contents such as atomic and molecular orbitals, multiple bonds, and electronic transitions, among others, were addressed in the developed product. In addition, the educational product was contextualized, presenting examples of applications of carbon electronics in everyday life (televisions, cell phones, smart watches, among others).