Atividades experimentais no ensino de química: o olhar dos estudantes em uma escola pública de Manaus

Abstract

This research seeks to contribute to the improvement in the teaching and learning of chemistry, through the use of experimental activities with students from the 1st year of high school in a public school in Manaus. It seeks, therefore, to provide an understanding of chemical phenomena through experimental activities, perform an analysis of the students' view of the practice of these phenomena in the classroom and present a proposal for the use of simple experimental activities with low-cost materials. The research is characterized as a descriptive and exploratory study, with a qualitative and quantitative approach. As instruments of data collection, questionnaires were applied and the data were expressed in graphs. As a result of this research we can report how experimentation in teaching is of fundamental importance for meaningful learning, awakening a strong interest among students, and being one of the fundamental tools for the teaching-learning process. These results were evidenced by the students' view of the experience of participating in the proposed practical class.