Física moderna para o ensino médio : relato de uma experiência

Abstract

The teaching of physics in secondary schools comes every year become disconnected with modern society and taking directions that have not followed the technological advances that are present in the daily lives of our students. We live in an era where much of the technological base is based on themes of modern physics like relativity or quantum mechanics and special. To make our students feel motivated to learn physics, has been challenging for us teachers, since most of them they see physics as a tangle of formulas that serve only to solve problems of uniform and varied rectilinear motions, applications of Newton’s laws, thermology , optics and simple circuit. In schools, teachers use a teaching sequence of foreign descent, such that subjects such as relativity, Bohr atom, photoelectric effect, wave-particle duality, uncertainty principle, among others has not been addressed in the classroom by our teachers. This project presents a proposal to support teacher work some topics of modern physics with their high school students. Often, most teachers do not discuss these issues for lack of time, poor training in some degrees and also for not having a good theoretical foundation. Aiming to help them, our goal is to provide a theoretical basis about Relativity and Quantum mechanics based on the epistemology of Thomas Kuhn and meaningful learning of David Ausubel. This proposal is included a text teacher support as well as the suggestion of videos and computer simulations as previous organizers, enabling better interaction between the teacher and the student so that it can reach the didactic transposition in order to get good results learning.