Uso da aprendizagem cooperativa como meio facilitador no ensino de balanceamento de equações químicas em uma turma do 1º ano do Ensino Médio

Abstract

Cooperative learning is a teaching methodology that seeks with its methods to provide an improvement in student learning as well as in their interpersonal relationships, and its application in education is dated from the late nineteenth century in the United States of America by literature researched. This work aimed to apply the cooperative learning techniques, which were the Jig-Saw and the Pair Method, in teaching the balancing of chemical equations, in order to promote an improvement in students' learning. The study was carried out in a high school class of a public school in the city of Picos-PI, from October to December 2017. In which we used as data collection evaluative activities and questionnaires to verify the students' learning. From the data collected, there was an improvement both in student relations and an improvement in student learning, where in the Jig Saw method the students achieved a performance equal to or above the school average of 61%. And in the Peer Method a gain of around 88.5%. It was concluded that the activities developed by both Peer Method and Jig Saw groups gave the students an improvement in their learning, in addition, Jig Saw was what the students liked best. From the realization of this work we see the relevance of new methodologies in the teaching of chemistry in order to improve the understanding of the contents and the interpersonal relations of the students themselves in the classroom