Ensino de ciências: temática lâmpada com enforque CTSA

Abstract

The focus of this work is the Science Education through the theme lamp. The theme chosen proposes intended to assist in the development of skills and competencies in the fields of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, adding science approach, Technology, Society and Environment (CTSA) as a contribution to scientific literacy and providing a critical and reflective perspective for the exercise of citizenship. The CTSA approach brings from a proposed theme, a form of differentiated teaching and contextualized so that there is one decision-making, ie to develop the opinion concerning any matter discussed. In this context, developed by six interventions in a public school of high school in the city of Dom Pedrito, through the theme proposed in the application of methodology Three Pedagogic Moments (Delizoicov; Angotti, 1994). These interventions occurred twenty eight students transcorrendo a workload of nearly thirteen hours activities. The survey data were collected through quantitative and qualitative questionnaires, analyzed by Likert scale (Likert, 1994) and from the students' understanding regarding the proposed theme, respectively. It can be concluded that the related Science Teaching the CTSA approach from using the theme "lamp", brought the role of students in relation to considered very important content for their learning, such as electric current, electrical power, the disposal of lamps, the composition of the same, the calculation of electricity consumption. Moreover, these were motivated by both theoretical activities as demonstrative and / or practices that integrated the natural sciences area contextualizing them with their daily experiences.