Atividade experimental problematizada (AEP): possibilidades e contribuições para o ensino de química no ensino médio politécnico

Abstract

This work aims to investigate and discuss the potential of a teaching plan, based on the relations between Generating Themes and experimentation, as contributory to the teaching and learning processes, in the form of Significant Learning, in the perspective of teachers and students, from The mapping of the reality of these subjects. Therefore, a preliminary survey of the reality of the students of a 3rd grade high school class of a school located in the rural area of the municipality of Caçapava do Sul – RS was carried out. This research intend at the definition of a generating theme as the articulating axis of the programmatic contents to be treated in Chemistry in this series, using it in the perspective of methodological resource for the teaching process. The data obtained in the thematic investigation were submitted to Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA), obtaining the generating theme "Food and Agriculture". In this theme, a teaching plan was elaborated and developed with the class. Went through an experimental activity to the generator theme established, methodological procedures also analyzed, from the public's speech, by DTA. It was perceived a wide relevance of this action in the promotion of a Significant Learning in the Chemistry Teaching, in order to stimulate the interest and the critical sense of the subjects.