Repensando o ensino de física no ensino médio: a construção de foguetes como aliada a construção de conhecimentos

Abstract

The present work discusses the application of an experiment, the PET bottle rocket, as instrument that facilitates the learning of physical concepts in high school. Throughout the text a comparison is made between teaching as it happens in practice, full of memorization and equations, and what is expected, with research activities in which students are urged to produce and relate what is worked in the classroom. with reality through experimentation. The objective is to describe the possibility of working physics in high school more pleasantly for students, facilitating and making learning more meaningful to students as well as combining theory with practice. It deals with the assembly of the rocket, the description of the physical concepts that can be worked from the rocket, as well as its application in medium level classes. Emphasizing the role of the teacher in planning and guiding the activity developed in the classroom as well as the attitude of the school that should seek quality rather than quantity in relation to what is taught.