Química e tecnologia: elaboração de um material didático com a temática medicamentos avaliados para o tratamento da Covid-19 e uso do software ArgusLab

Abstract

Contextualization in the teaching of natural sciences, in a Science/Technology/Society/Environment (STSE) has been defended by official guidelines, educators and researchers as a guiding tool for an education that seeks citizenship and a significant learning received for literacy scientific in chemistry teaching. At this point, the educational product (EP) designed is intended to equip high school teachers to exercise their profession. The proposed material foresees a systematized and organized content in order to help the teacher in the classroom with regard to arousing the students' interest for a current theme and present in the daily life of all of us through the investigation. The material was divided into two main parts: a basic guide for using the ArgusLab software and suggestions for experiments that can be performed using the software. In addition, so that we could compare and evaluate this EP in relation to others, criteria were proposed that take into account the form of presentation and approach to the theme, as well as the presence of investigative activities. In this context, although it was not possible to evaluate the material by a group of teachers due to the social isolation imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we believe that based on the listed criteria and by comparison with other similar materials available in the literature, a material potentially interesting and significant was produced during this stage of my training at PROFQUI-UFAL.