ESTUDANDO TRANSFERÊNCIA DE CALOR UTILIZANDO FOLHETOS DE CORDEL CIENTÍFICOS

Abstract

In our experience in basic education, we observed that physics classes are characterized by excessive exposure of contents, besides a mechanized form of presentation, in which teachers excessively emphasizes the mathematical formalism, repetition of exercises, and little explores the theory, thephenomenology, also in their pedagogical practice they rarely use didactic tools that facilitate students’ learning. We understand it is necessary to use alternative methodologies which facilitate the learning of the contents by students. In this way, we use Scientific “Folhetos de Cordel” as a didactic tool for teaching Physics, as well as a teaching sequence to the application of these in the classroom. We held a workshop in three meetings with a second-year high school class from a public school, located in Juazeiro do Norte-CE, where we worked “Heat Transfer” through “Folhetos de Cordel”. We analyzed students learning through questionnaires, interviews, and observations during class. A priori, a questionnaire was applied to identify the preexisting prior knowledge in their cognitive structure about the content. A posteriori we applied a questionnaire and we interviewed to evaluate the learning, and if the use of “Folhetos de Cordel” were facilitators for the teaching-learning process. We observed evidence that the methodology used with the use of the “Folhetos de Cordel” was effective, regarding the students’ learning. Thus, we conclude that “Folhetos” can be used as an instrument to facilitate the occurrence of significant learning of the students