Construção de uma ferramenta didática na perspectiva histórica experimental de Biot e Savart

Abstract

For physics teaching, literature has alerted us to a strong and notable presence of alternative conceptions in the cognitive structure of high school students, and even in undergraduate courses in physics, although they have already studied academic subjects that address the scientific concepts. These conceptual difficulties, experienced by me in the classroom, led us to reflect on the present work, allowing us to understand that one of the ways to minimize these conceptual errors would be to work certain historical episodes from a historical perspective, increasing it to the aspect experimental. These presuppositions made us see a new possibility of producing a more efficient physics teaching, in which we would have as a didactic contribution a teaching booklet, allowing to those who make use of it, a differentiated view of the production of the knowledge involved in the process of constructing the concept, surpassing the teaching of the same by the traditional and restricted process. In this sense, our work brings a literature review that points, in a general way, to the benefits that the teaching of physics can provide when using a historical and experimental approach. Next, we present a strong theoretical foundation, with a historical and conceptual description of the initial phase of electromagnetism, in which we show the experimental aspects proposed and developed by Oersted, Ampere and Biot e Savart. These theoretical descriptions were fundamental to support our paradise, while giving us a more accurate view of the experiments developed at the time, allowing us to build an experimental equipment that can be a physical representation of the experiment developed by Biot and Savart. In this way, we understand that the use of two products associated to the same idea can be a copious initiative for the teaching and learning process of physical concepts, capable of producing conceptual gains, while at the same time creating a barrier against alternative concepts.