Desenvolvimento de uma proposta para o ensino de hidrostática voltada para a aprendizagem significativa

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Alice Scherer da
• Orientador(a): Silva, Ana Maria Marques da
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: FÍSICA - ENSINO; HIDROSTÁTICA; APRENDIZAGEM ESCOLAR; ENSINO - TÉCNICAS; RELAÇÃO PROFESSOR-ALUNO
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/2983

This study aims to analyze the development of an exploration proposal in Hydrostatics unit integrated with the experience brought from the students, with the questioning of theory (comment/reflection) linked with practice (action), as one form of construction of the significative learning. Experimental activities in the Physics laboratory had been used as a potentially facilitator instrument for the concept’s reconstruction of the students. The study was carried out in a public school of the interior of Rio Grande Do Sul state, with high school students mainly from rural zone of the city. A proposal that searches to explore the previous knowledge and the reality of the student as motivating source was developed. The analysis aimed to explore the teacher’s and student’s role in this proposal construction, the evolution of verbal and writing communications of the students, how the experimental activities had contributed to relate theory and practice in Physics classes and the contributions for citizenship.In this proposal, the teacher is a facilitator and moderator element in the teaching and learning process. He has a questioning role, searching for the student’s previous knowledge and those problems that motivate them for the observation, reflection and action. During the activities, the students have started to verbalize their ideas clearly and with objectivity, using scientific terms, and showing an improvement in verbal and writing languages. During the experimental activities, the students had the possibility of raise hypotheses, test, observe, argue and reformulate them. The proposal values the knowledge related to daily problems and questions, from near to distant reality. The concepts of Hydrostatics had been incorporated as tools for decision making and action for community change. Attitudes as dialogue, respect to colleagues, concerns about the group and community events, solidarity and responsibility, had been developed in classroom.