O uso das tecnologias computacionais aliadas à prática de ensino de eletrodinâmica para alunos do 3º ano do ensino médio

Abstract

In this study we verified the role of simulations as an alternative to conventional laboratories in teaching physics in an attempt to meet the need of experimentation in this discipline performing two activities - one in the virtual lab and the other in the real lab - to investigate the extent to which the virtual lab can replace the actual laboratory in an attempt to minimize the problem of necessity and lack of experimentation in physics teaching. Two semi-structured scripts - about circuits in series and in parallel - have been proposed to the students of the third year of high school for a military public school, they made observations on these circuits, an investigative perspective, aiming to realize the main similarities and differences between them and arrive at a mathematical relationship that would describe them as from the first law of ohm. The observations and conclusions of the students were recorded in the report, which along with observations and records of the teacher researcher served as a source of data for analysis. Our results suggest a reflection on the most appropriate way of using the school laboratory in physics education from the possibility of integrating traditional practice activities with virtual simulations.