O ambiente virtual de estudo e a formação dos conceitos científicos nas séries iniciais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

In order to insert the Communication and Information Technologies (CIT) into the educative scenario, this work discusses some possibilities of using internet as a tool to be applied as a facilitating resource in science teaching, specially Physics. Furthermore, we discuss some aspects inherent to the elaboration of Study Virtual Environrnents (SVE), to be used by students at Primary Schoo1. These discussions were based on the Cognitive Flexibility Theory (CFT) and on the Personal Constructs Theory (PCT). The SVE Ciências.Física 'Yas implemented from articulations between some points of these theories. This teaching tool presents a complex vision of reaJity, as suggested by CFT, and contemplates the process of knowledge acquisition, considering the individual construction systems indicated by PCT. We developed an intervention tool based on Webquest model (WQ), to enable users of SVE to access internet to acquire necessary information about some Physics contents. In order to approach concepts, we used ímages, which represent everyday life situations, leading to a better understanding by the students.