Identificando aspectos investigativos, em atividades bem sucedidas de ciências, no ensino médio

Abstract

This study aims to identify , in state schools , if teachers invited to this research , or not use , investigative aspects within their classes . Were asked three professors of Natural Sciences , the school to report an activity , which they said was " successful . " This work is divided into three parts: the first presents the theoretical framework in which questions are raised about what the research activity and its main features . The second part presents the reports on the activities collected through semi-structured interviews conducted with a professor of Biological Sciences , one in Chemistry and a professor of physics , network State school . And in the third step , the activities reported are analyzed according to five characteristics investigative most cited in the theoretical framework . Then , each activity will be classified according to Tamir ( Sá , 2009) . Professor of Chemistry reported an activity deployment of the pH scale , in an attempt to do something different . Science teachers , an activity about the importance of vegetation in combating erosion as an everyday activity . And the activity of professor of physics , was about building and launching a rocket to work some concepts of physics , also in an attempt to do something different .