Perspectiva sobre o estudo das estrelas no ensino de física moderna do ensino médio

Abstract

Astronomy is a subject that captivates people of all ages, arouses curiosity about the universe, while attracting attention from all fields of knowledge. Within this topic is the formation of the stars, which connects contents of physics and chemistry. The areas of Physics behind the processes of formation and evolution of stars involve several concepts of Modern Physics, i. e, from the study of stars one can disseminate the fundamentals and importance of these concepts. However, the teaching of Modern Physics, a subject that is part of our daily lives that can seen by looking the technology around us, is weakly developed in High School. Thus, this work aims to explore the study of stars in the teaching of Modern Physics in High School in order to give students the opportunity to have a contextualized contact with this very important area of Physics. For this, bibliographic research was initially carried out on topics related to stars and Modern Physics. Then, field research in a 3rd year high school class was carried out through questionnaires and small class as a way of evaluating perspectives on the concepts of Modern Physics and analyzing how the contextualized teaching of Astronomy can be initiated and developed at the same time by studying the stars, helping the teaching-learning process in contents related to Modern Physics. The results provide indications that it is possible to develop subjects involving color, temperature, size and composition of the stars approaching fundamentals of Modern Physics, however, there are difficulties in achieving these goals mainly due to the fact that there are few teaching materials to work in classrooms and short time for the teachers give class