A relevância da utilização de experimentos com materiais de baixo custo para a melhor aprendizagem do ensino da física

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Brigagão, Paulo Alberto de Vasconcellos
• Orientador(a): Souza, Luiz Eduardo Silva
• Banca de defesa: Souza, Luiz Eduardo Silva, Lopes, Jurema Rosa, Santos, Antônio Carlos Fontes dos, Helayël-Neto, José Abdalla, Domingues, Paulo Henrique Porcheto
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Grande Rio
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ensino das Ciências
• Departamento: Unigranrio::Ensino das Ciências
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Educação; Física; Física - Experiências
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: EDUCAÇÃO; ENSINO DE CIÊNCIAS E MATEMÁTICA
• Link de acesso: http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/266

There is a consensus among teachers, concerning the idea that the use of experimental practices in conjunction with the theory implies a strengthening of the basic concepts of learning, mainly with regard to the understanding of physics. Such strengthened concepts would promote meaningful learning. But what occurs in daily practice in the classroom, is to relegate or even to abandon the experimental classes, creating a discrepancy between "what should be done" and "what is done". The present research, in a simplified and objective manner, indicates the importance of applying simple experiments in the classroom, using low cost materials. Also pointed out some sites in Internet of physics experiments, aiming assist the choice and execution of experiments, all simple, easy to manufacture and reasonably attractive. Therefore, starting from the assumption that such experiments help the assimilation of content, promoting a conceptual and substantial meaningful learning, the present research aimes to reduce the possible barriers between use or not to use the experiments in the classroom, providing the teacher a choice of several experimental practices, according to their availability. In addition, a new proposal has been suggested regarding how to perform the experiments. A set of materials of low cost and easy to purchase, now called kit was made available, to be used in a lot of simple experiments applied at the high school physics classes. This practice was analyzed, indicating that the concepts underpinning theories of students have changed with the use of the proposed methodology, enabling improving the performance of the assessments of learning proposals.