Construção de conceitos de cinemática utilizando TDIC

Abstract

The basic concepts of acceleration, velocity, position and displacement, space, related to kinematics, are extremely important for understanding this specific topic of physics in a daily student life, as well they are crucial for students to understand countless other situations in the study of this science. Based on these aspects and the importance of learning in kinematics for the teaching of Physics, this work presents a proposal to approach this topic through the use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (TDIC). Based on action research as a methodology, a series of activities was applied to 1st year high school students, using simulations and virtual experiments in class, seeking to investigate whether this type of approach would be able to promote meaningful learning of some initial concepts of kinematics, mainly velocity and acceleration. Based on Ausubel concepts of meaningful learning, the activities focused mainly on problem solving and virtual experimentation showed that students were able to significantly build the basic concepts, in addition to developing attitudinal aspects related to autonomy.