O ensino de ondulatória a partir da temática terremotos: A proposta de uma sequência didática

Abstract

The educational reforms in Brazil, at least formally in official documents, have recently begun, around two decades, and may cost at least the same time for the desired transformations to be reached at national level. Government documents call to practice according to each educational reality, seeing that their proposal seeks the critical and creative development of the students, so that they can relate the various areas of knowledge to the promotion of a Quality education that aims not only to pursue in academic life but also in the formation of the individual as a citizen. These proposals work according as what they are put into practice, allied and adapted to each particular educational reality. In view of this, the teaching of physics must be focused on skills that will allow students to perceive and deal with the natural and technological phenomena present in their daily lives and being for this is necessary the dominance of some scientific concepts. Aiming at a better understanding of the construction of concepts, it was used the theory of conceptual fields, by Gérard Vergnaud. The pedagogy of projects was used in order to articulate the development of this proposal, because it departed from a demand of the students interested in studying earthquakes, which were then related to the study of waves. The structure of this work will be in six chapters, where the first chapter presents the introduction on the topic and proposal, the second chapter contains the theoretical reference in teaching, the third chapter contains the theoretical reference in physics. The methodology and the proposed educational product are presented in the fourth chapter. In the fifth chapter are the results and discussion and in the sixth the final considerations.