Metodologias ativas no ensino e aprendizagem: oficina "Aprendendo sobre a osmose"

Abstract

Teaching science, in particular chemistry, means much more than transferring knowledge. Teaching chemistry today is a great challenge for many teachers. The main challenges faced by educators at all levels of education are to align chemistry with the needs and interests of most students. Due to the discussions around the difficulties presented by students in expressing the scientific knowledge about osmosis in everyday situations. The main objective of this research is to verify, through the workshop "learning about osmosis", the process of acquisition of learning by students about the theme addressed. Experimentation is an important teaching tool. Thematic workshops are a facilitating tool for integrating different areas of knowledge, and are characterized by presenting chemical content according to the theme. To structure a workshop, the pedagogical moments proposed by Delizoicov; Angotti; Pernambuco (2002) are used as a basis: Initial problematization, Knowledge organization and Knowledge application. The difficulty in understanding the osmotic process and the students' liking with the subject of chemistry is still a barrier perceived by teachers. It was possible to observe how the students presented difficulties on exposing osmosis and some problems of their daily lives. It was noticed that students prefer practical classes, so that they can learn and develop the syllabus. The thematic workshop "Learning about osmosis" proved to be a useful and complementary tool to assist in teaching and learning chemistry.