Conectar no smartphone: uma física para alunos(as) surdos(as)

Abstract

“How to teach electromagnetic waves to deaf students?” Aware of our challenges, this was the question of the research. After discussion between the researcher and the advisor, we concluded that we would explain “waves” to the deaf student based on the artifact that most of them use in their daily lives: the Smartphone. This research presents the analysis of a didactic sequence with Physics content, applied in a class composed by deaf students of the elementary school of a public school of the Municipal Network of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais. Aiming to contribute to the learning of deaf students in the discipline of Physics with the content "electromagnetic waves", from the problematic of the didactic sequence: How do words and images come out of a cell phone and arrive at the cell phone of the friend sitting next to it? The use of playful and creative methodological resources, such as images of technological artifacts and experiments, thought after each class taught by the researcher, provided a mediation between deaf students and scientific knowledge. The data were collected after classroom observations, a profile questionnaire, students' reports, photos, footage and records made in the field notebook regarding the monitoring of activities in the classroom. The main objective of this work is to propose teaching strategies that promote the approximation of deaf students to the concepts of physics through theoretical and practical elements related to problematizations, socio-historical-cultural contextualization, use of images, representations, expression in pounds and verbal language, analogies and metaphors in the construction of knowledge about electromagnetic waves.