A abordagem histórica como elemento facilitador na aprendizagem da mecânica newtoniana para 1º ano do ensino médio

Abstract

The dynamics of the Fundamental Laws are part of the menu of the discipline of Physics of the first year of high school, which is presented to most students with divorced from reality school where they live, not being, most often contextualized in the classroom by the teacher, so using the traditional method and excessive mathematisation. And the challenge is to stimulate the interest of students of the 1st year of high school, through the historical approach to the laws of Newton. This work investigated the historical approach applied to Newton's Laws in the 1st year of high school School Francisco Nunes Group, facilitates the understanding of students and makes the most productive class. Such research is descriptive qualitative, divided into stages. The study subjects were students of the 1st year of high school this institution. While investigating the problem could be overcome challenges and show that working with a historical focus, with the necessary methodological adjustments will arouse interest and understanding of the students, getting a more productive and effective class. Besides revealing to them that a physics class can be understandable when assimilated to everyday phenomena, making them understand the importance and limits of historical approach in learning, emphasizing the possibility of reducing the difficulties faced in learning Newtonian mechanics. This work was based on studies of some authors such with: Light and Alvares (2005); Costa (2014); Pereira (2011); Matthews (1995); Batista (2004); Martin (2001); D'Ambrosio (2004); Wang and Marsh (2002)