Unidade de Ensino Potencialmente Significativa: aprendizagem dos conceitos de entropia e segunda lei da termodinâmica

Abstract

This Potentially Significant Teaching Unit (PSTU) proposal aims to contribute to the occurrence of meaningful learning, because the concepts are approached progressively in terms of complexity, the evaluation is carried out during the entire implementation and not only at the end of the teaching/learning process, with strategies that stimulate the student's creativity, relating the concepts with subjects present in the student's daily life. Bearing in mind that, although the PSTU constructed is potentially significant, it must be adapted to the public and to the students' knowledge. This methodology, which encompasses several and diversified activities, from individual to collaborative (in groups), favors the participation of students in a more active way in the teaching/learning process, providing a construction of knowledge richer in meanings, therefore, we built a Potentially Significant Teaching for learning the concepts of Entropy, the statistical approach to temperature, temperature that culminates with the reformulation of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.