Cana-de-açúcar como tema gerador no ensino de química.

Abstract

The use of everyday topics has become common front to the educational proposals for the teaching of science in order to give more meaning to the concepts seen in the school routine, relating them to a common theme in the reality of students. In addition, the use of these themes enables a contextualized approach to knowledge and its complexity is overcome by the contribution of other areas of knowledge entering therefore interdisciplinary. Thus, through this perspective, it is understood that the chemistry education should go beyond the presets and applications on the evidence, and make up to the students a way to get a better perception of the world, contributing to the development of critical character, covering cultural, humanistic and ethical aspects. In this sense, this research is directed to the use of instruments as enabling tools for the development of cognitive skills of the students in a context contextualized, interdisciplinary, environmental and sustainable through the theme sugarcane. The project was intended to thirty-five students in a class of 3rd high school year in a public school in the city of Nova Floresta - PB and developed through the use of diversified activities such as lectures, group activities, preparation and presentation panels, trial lessons, textual productions, audiovisual productions, theatrical production, discussions after each activity performed and readings of texts. All these activities were presented by the students to the school community during the culmination of the project. Questionnaires were administered at the beginning and end of the research and it was found through these and observations, that the work has achieved the expected goals and contributed to the development of students in all aspects proposed, since there was an improvement in quantitative yield, but mainly, quality of students. The activities used promoted increased interaction and participation of students, which has become the most dynamic and motivating teaching-learning process helping also to raise the interest of students by the chemical.