Unidade de ensino potencialmente significativa para o ensino de química orgânica, abordando atemática dos agrotóxicos

Abstract

Chemistry is one of the subjects that students have great learning difficulties, therefore, in order to promote that the Chemistry teaching/learning be meaningful for students, considering the context in which they are located, the theme pesticides was used to teach the concepts of organic chemistry from a Potentially Meaningful Teaching Units - PMTU, linking education to the Science, Technology, Society and Environment – STSE. This interconnection aims to enable students to analyze the technical reality in social, political, cultural and economica fashion, in addition to health issues, awakening their critical spirit, so that they can interfere in their daily events. This work presents, the data of the assessment learning of the students which consisted of a French discourse analysis of history in comics (comic) made by students. The PMTU described here was applied for 22 students with varying ages, from rural school. The results showed that comics, when it was used to evaluate content learning by students, with PMTU in a STSE approach, provided to be a good tool since stimulated the relationship between science and citizenship within the students context as can be seen from the results analysis. Keywords: STSE. PMTU. Organic Chemistry. Comics. Teaching/learning.