Atividades experimentais como recurso facilitador no processo de ensino-aprendizagem dos conceitos de óptica geométrica

Abstract

This work brings a discussion about the teaching of physics and its difficulties. It is a fact that far-fetched mathematical language has its share of contribution in this statistic, but the reasons go further and are known. The traditional teaching methodology has already proved ineffective to meet the requirements that are being made by the system. Students are creating aversion to physics and increasingly distancing themselves from a subject considered difficult and tedious by them. The objective of this work is to meet the required needs by proposing an attractive teaching methodology that awakens again in the student his instinct of curiosity for nature and the facts that surround him. As physics has a vast field of action, the content of geometric optics was selected and the methodology used is based on the use of didactic experiments for the construction of concepts and verification of applications. The experiments were applied in the form of an optical workshop, in the schools Zulmira Xavier State Center of Full Time and in the Raimundo Miranda de Brito School Unit, both in the city of Luís Correia - PI, where five equipment sums were strategically assembled so that students could visualize the principles of geometric optics and make the relationship of theory and practice. In order to contribute to the learning process promoting greater interaction and participation of students in the construction of knowledge. The results showed satisfactory from the point of view of the attracted public and all the discussions held during the presentations