Potencialidades do uso de modelos e analogias para o processo de aprendizagem de conceitos de astronomia e química no ensino fundamental

Abstract

The National Curricular Parameters highlight that the main aspect of Natural Sciences subject must be the teaching focused on the citizen formation, and not the overestimation of specifics knowledge. Inspite of how this subject is essential to the citizenship formation of the students, there are deficiencies in the formation of teachers in this area in the last years of Middle School. Therefore, even though the Natural Sciences be an area that look many subjects, those relates to Astronomy aren’t developed satisfactorily, just as it happens with Chemistry subjects, which are practically, limited to the last year of Middle School. This work has as the main objective analyze, through a field journal, model’s register and analysis of applied questionnaires, how the use of models and analogies in a following teaching focused in the first year of Middle School, it cans potentialize the learning process of students in Chemistry and, specifically, Astronomy.