Experimentação e utilização de simuladores virtuais: abordagens alternativas para o ensino de ácido e base no ensino médio

Abstract

One of the most controversial and widely discussed pedagogical ideas in research in the area of teaching and education by professors and undergraduate students is the great difficulty that high school students face in the process of learning the contents of the discipline of Chemistry. Such difficulties found inside and outside the classroom such as the lack of interest of the students and teachers and the lack of contextualization of the contents of Chemistry with the daily life of the students has led many researchers to think about new alternative teaching and learning methodologies. Chemistry is a science where its knowledges are linked to the practice of experimental activities that aim to make the contents less abstract and difficult to understand. In this perspective, this work sought to investigate and analyze the impacts of the use of experimentation, and in a cooperative way to complement this activity with the use of virtual simulators in the classroom. This is a descriptive-exploratory research (case study), with a qualitative-quantitative approach, where the experiment and the simulator were worked in a high school class in a public school located in the city of Manaus / AM. The relative data about the acceptance and evaluation of these methodologies by the students were carried out through questionnaires and notes. Based on the obtained results, it was verified that the strategies used were efficient, since all the students understood the scientific concepts correctly, being therefore a great alternative to overcome some problems faced in the learning process learning the contents of acids and bases. It was also observed that such methodologies led students to act as researchers, with interactive and questioning attitudes among their classmates.