Física em casa: uso dos itens encontrados nos lares para ensinar física para alunos da modalidade EJA

Abstract

Classical education, based on the orality of the teacher and the passivity of the students, it still today in the classrooms of regular education and in the education of young people and adults on the called EJA escolar program in Brazil. Its maintenance is justified on the grounds that it is the best way to teach and because it takes less work, or even due to the scarcity of teaching tools aimed to the EJA students. But, fortunately, there is already a great concern in some teachers to teaching a more contextualized Physics. However, as far as we know, until now there was no material that compiled the physics that can be explored in our house in an organized way, and it was with this in mind, that we decided to develop this educational product in the National Professional Master in Physics Teaching at SBF ( MNPEF-SBF). For example, the microwave device is used to study the interaction of radiation with matter, and the refrigerator to explain some concepts of thermodynamics. The material also has a section called myth or truth, in which questions that arise in the student's daily life are explored, such as the question of the people can or cannot to store hot food in the refrigerator. There is also a section with tips, such as the question that one should not use decorative items inside the refrigerator that obstruct the circulation of air inside it, like plastics in the grills. From the application of the educational product in the classroom for EJA students, we found a good acceptance on the part of the students, where most of them liked very much the proposal presented. We saw that a few students said they did not like it or thatt the material is not easy to understand, among other negative points. But, analyzing the responses of this group of students, we saw that, in fact, their problem was more associated with the fact that they do not like Physics, or that they do not have time to study Physics, than with the educational product itself. Our desire is that this material can contribute to a change in the educational reality in Brazil, and that students increasingly learn Physics and apply it in their daily lives.