Açúcar como tema gerador para o ensino interdisciplinar de química

Abstract

Classrooms are an environment of constant learning, and therefore, incessant studies must be developed to promote effective teaching to students. One way to facilitate students' learning is to work with the contents in a contextualized way, which is why the present work aims to develop students' knowledge through a generating theme, sugar (sucrose), which is a well-known food that is widely occupies the table of Brazilians. Considering this fact and making a parallel with the evils (scientifically proven) that excessive consumption of sugar can cause (namely, diabetes, obesity, etc.), sugar becomes an excellent starting point for contextualizing the interdisciplinary teaching of chemistry, where the objective, as previously mentioned, is to provide meaningful learning for students. The interdisciplinarity addressed here is between chemistry and other disciplines in the area of Natural Sciences and Its Technologies (physics and biology), Mathematics and its Technologies (mathematics), as well as Human Sciences and its Technologies (history and geography). We sought to achieve the objective of this work through the development of two educational products. The first of these is a didactic sequence. The second proposal for an educational product is a short course that deals with the theme (sugar). The preparation of the mini-course was due to the completion of the stages of the didactic sequence. In the development of this work, it will be seen that the literature shows that the didactic sequences, the generating themes and the interdisciplinarity make the students' learning process viable.