A utilização de materiais concretos no ensino e aprendizagem de ótica

Abstract

The students who are observed today in the school setting are increasingly unmotivated, mainly in the disciplines of the area of Exact. This fact should motivate the teachers and seek methods that encourage and instigate the students to question to want to learn. Based on this, the present work has as purpose to evaluate the contribution of theuse of concrete materials or experiments to improve the learning of concepts and fundamental phenome of optics. This study was developed with a class of third year of the technical course in electronics integrated to high school of Federal Institute of Piauí – Campus Teresina Central in the city of Teresina-PI. Pre and post tests were carried out through the application of questionnaires, before and at the end of the study as a way of analyzing their previous knowledge about the subject and their learning. This study was based on the theories of Vigotsky (1978) and Ausubel (1976), where at the end of this study, it was found that with the use of experiments and/or didactic materials in the classroom, the proposed teaching practice generated significant learning.