Banca de DEFESA: AGUINALDO PEREIRA DOS SANTOS

The construction of scientific knowledge in the classroom through students’ experiences and daily lives

Learning, Constructivism, Non-formal education

Learning can be acquired both formally at school and non-formally in other environments. The objective of the work was to work on active methodologies in the classroom and Science Museums as a non-formal space in Chemistry Teaching. The basis of the work was based on the theories of René Descartes, Jean Piaget and Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier. The intention was to carry out, alongside the work, a reflection on the methods used at school to teach science, that is, the entire methodological process for obtaining “true ideas” by students and thereby building scientific thinking and consolidating school content. The process of transformation in science that led Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier to revolutionize the history of chemistry and biology, creating the law of Conservation of Mass or Law of Conservation of Matter allowed the carrying out of qualitative descriptive-exploratory experiments in the classroom. The method chosen was inductive, with the construction and use of scales with alternative materials. The conclusion was that the acquisition of knowledge supported by the history of science, through non-formal education, allows the student to move from scientifec illiteracy to scientific knowledge.