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JOSÉ RAFAEL OLIVEIRA ALVES
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Use of mistakes as Organic Chemistry learning tool in High School through a Quiz
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Advisor : ANDERSON DIAS VIANA
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COMMITTEE MEMBERS :
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ALESSANDRO AUGUSTO DE BARROS FACANHA
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ANDERSON DIAS VIANA
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LILIAN CAVALCANTE DA SILVA
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Data: Jan 29, 2024
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Chemistry plays a crucial role in the high school curriculum, showing significant relevance in today's society. However, it is common to find students who face difficulties in understanding the content taught in the classroom, especially with regard to Organic Chemistry. In this context, the theory of learning by error has emerged as a viable alternative to improve student performance in this discipline. Based on this theory, the present study aims to analyze the application of learning by mistakes in the teaching of Organic Chemistry, using an educational quiz with questions inspired by the National Secondary Education Examination (ENEM) for students in the 2nd and 3rd grades of high school in a state public school. It is expected to contribute, therefore, to the improvement of the pedagogical strategies of Chemistry teachers. Provide the resources that make it possible to direct the development of teaching methods that are more centered on the methodology of learning by mistakes and on the theory of meaningful learning. The choice of this theme is justified by the need to seek solutions to the difficulties faced by students in understanding Organic Chemistry, as well as the importance of the Enem as a way of evaluating student learning. The research question that guides this study is: can the use of a quiz, based on ENEM questions, develop learning by mistake in the study of Organic Chemistry? It is expected that, through this questionnaire, students can identify the factors that lead to the emergence of errors and use this process as a tool for learning. The educational product will consist of a game in the form of a quiz and a manual to help the teacher in the analysis of response patterns and work on errors observed by students and their justifications.
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LIANE ALVES DA SILVA COSTA
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PROBLEMIZED EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES: A GUIDE FOR TEACHING CHEMISTRY FROM LOCAL CONTEXTS.
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Advisor : ANDERSON DIAS VIANA
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COMMITTEE MEMBERS :
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ANDERSON DIAS VIANA
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NEDJA SUELY FERNANDES
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JOÃO LEONARDO FREITAS OLIVEIRA
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Data: Jan 31, 2024
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Brazilian National Common Curricular Base (BNCC) is a guiding and normative document that directs, through competences and abilities, the elaboration of the school curriculum. Competency-based teaching allows the student to develop concepts of each curricular component, from the interaction with the school environment and with their peers, thus causing a learning not only of contents, but of skills that allow them to establish a relationship with the environment in which he lives acting consciously. The experimental activities are configured as a methodology that allows the reflection of empirical phenomena, providing a positive quality for the learning of scientific concepts, in this way it is a methodology that, in addition to associating the observable phenomenon with the theoretical explanation, can promote the development of skills for problem solving, mentioned in the BNCC. In this way, will Problem Based Experiments articulated to a regional context enable the development of skills guided by the BNCC? To answer this question, a study will be carried out on which skills provided in the BNCC can be developed with experimental work and classify which regional contexts associated with the economy and cuisine of Rio Grande do Norte that can be the subject of problematized experimental activities related to the teaching of chemical contents applied in a 2nd grade high school class. As a result of this work, it is expected that it will be possible to create a proposal manual so that the teacher can use the experimental activities in their classes in a problematizing and contextualized way, also allowing the professional to follow the guidelines established by the national documents that guide the high school.
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LUCIANO SILVA DE MIRANDA
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USE OF AUGMENTED REALITY IN THE DIDACTIC APPROACH TO ASPECTS OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS CONTENT IN HIGH SCHOOL
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Advisor : MELQUESEDEQUE DA SILVA FREIRE
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COMMITTEE MEMBERS :
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KESIA KELLY VIEIRA DE CASTRO
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LUIZ ALBERTO DA SILVA JUNIOR
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MELQUESEDEQUE DA SILVA FREIRE
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Data: Jan 31, 2024
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The significant increase in publications on Augmented Reality (AR) in Chemistry teaching has attracted attention, especially in the years 2019 to 2022. The ease of handling by students, ubiquity, and mobility may be factors that explain this diffusion, along with the pandemic context. In this sense, this research work aimed to produce a sequence of activities as a proposal for an Educational Product, addressing aspects of the content of Chemical Reactions in high school, using augmented reality. The focus of the investigation was to analyze barriers and potentialities of the proposal, based on the perceptions of the students participating in the research and how the meanings about this content could be mobilized by them in the context of the activities surrounding the use of the tool. Empirical data collection took place in a first-grade high school class at a public school in Natal-RN. For data collection, a field diary, audio recordings, and written productions throughout the sequence of activities were used. The analysis of the collected information considered theoretical-methodological contributions from a qualitative approach. Findings suggest an emergence of different meanings and expressions from students regarding the subject matter of knowledge, favoring the investigation of previous ideas that contributed to teaching planning. The generation of new forms of interaction between students and the teacher, and among the students themselves, in the context of activities, was also observed. This provided new forms of visualization, descriptions, and interpretations of evidence of chemical phenomena. Such observations may have contributed to fostering questions and reflections associated with the understanding of models and levels of chemical knowledge, which would possibly not be raised in conventional classes. The strategy offers a useful didactic proposal, guiding teachers to enhance creativity and direct them toward articulated, dynamic, and well-founded planning.
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PATRÍCK STÉINNER DE MOURA SILVA
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COLLABORATIVE LEARNING OF THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES FROM THE PEDAGOGICAL RPG SURFACE: AN ADVENTURE OF RECOLONIZING THE EARTH
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Advisor : PATRICIA FLAVIA DA SILVA DIAS MOREIRA
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COMMITTEE MEMBERS :
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PATRICIA FLAVIA DA SILVA DIAS MOREIRA
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EDGAR PERIN MORAES
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TATIANA APARECIDA ROSA DA SILVA
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Data: Mar 22, 2024
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This study proposes the application of an original RPG-based pedagogical game, titled "Surface: An Adventure of Earth Recolonization," for the collaborative teaching and reinforcement of physical properties of matter. Role-Playing Game (RPG) involves participants assuming distinct roles, guided by a narrator/master—usually the teacher—who narrates the story to the players, i.e., students. Through RPG gameplay, scenarios that extend beyond the classroom environment can be created, immersing students in a simulated world. Here, they embody pre-defined characters with specific abilities, confronting challenges presented by the game's master. The proposed RPG constitutes an educational game that focuses on key concepts, encompassing density, melting and boiling points, polarity, intermolecular forces, and solubility. The research involves third-year students from EEEP Osmira Eduardo de Castro, selected due to their prior exposure to the subject matter covered within the game. This facilitates the reinforcement, modification, or acquisition of knowledge related to the targeted concepts. The study will have a qualitative approach and supported by the Piagetian conception, constituting itself as Research with participant observation, acknowledging the interactive dynamics between subjects and the researcher. Given the inherent nature of RPGs (master/player relationships), these interactions shape the game's evolving narrative. Initially, the pedagogical RPG concept will be introduced to the class, encompassing game setting, rules, and character interactions within the adventure's scenarios. Students will be organized into groups for game implementation, each group controlling a character within the narrative and making decisions affecting their character's trajectory. Data collection methods will include the researcher's field notes and video recordings of the sessions for observational support. The gathered data will be categorized and analyzed to derive insights into the comprehension of the covered concepts by the students and the attainment of proposed learning objectives.
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LIORAN FAGNER BENTO DE OLIVEIRA
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FROM PRODUCTION TO GARBAGE DISPOSAL: PROPOSAL FOR A SCHOOL CHEMISTRY PROJECT IN THE CONTEXT OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION II
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Advisor : LUIZ ALBERTO DA SILVA JUNIOR
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COMMITTEE MEMBERS :
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LUIZ ALBERTO DA SILVA JUNIOR
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MELQUESEDEQUE DA SILVA FREIRE
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RAFAELA DOS SANTOS LIMA
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Data: Mar 22, 2024
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Thinking about the teaching-learning process in the current situation of Brazilian education, especially the teaching of chemistry, presents itself as a great challenge. The constant transformations in society cause significant changes in the social, political, cultural and personal relationships of the subjects that compose it. These relationships require critical, reflective and creative individuals. Therefore, it is necessary for the teacher to use active methodologies that facilitate the construction of skills and abilities necessary for students to understand the environment in which they are inserted and the phenomena that occur in their daily lives. From this perspective, project pedagogy emerges as a possibility capable of providing the construction of knowledge based on current themes and students' daily lives. In view of this, we are guided by the following research question: how can the theme of waste developed from Project Pedagogy contribute to the redefinition of knowledge in science classes in elementary school? From there, the objective of this work is to develop, apply and evaluate a project that allows students to create situations that encourage reflection and protagonism. To this end, a school project was produced based on Project Pedagogy, focused on providing moments of problematization, discussion, experimentation and application of knowledge built from the theme “waste: from production to disposal”. The application of this research was carried out in a municipal public school in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Norte with students in the sixth year of elementary school. Data collection was done through audio and video recordings during the implementation of the school project and using questionnaires and interviews applied at specific moments. As a result, we achieved an improvement in the teaching-learning process of the concepts of chemical and physical transformations, homogeneous and heterogeneous substances and mixtures and during the development of the project and we identified an evolution in the attitude and participation of students towards the resignification of scientific knowledge. The applied school project served as the basis for the preparation of the educational product and was published in the form of a digital teaching guide with the purpose of serving as a resource to help science teachers recontextualize the methodology within their school realities. We conclude that Project Pedagogy enables the teaching/learning process in a collaborative way, capable of establishing connections with reality and providing the application of knowledge.
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GILLES BASTOS E SILVA
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TEACHING UNIT AS A POSSIBILITY TO DISCUSS STOCHIOMETRY CONCEPTS
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Advisor : ANA CRISTINA FACUNDO DE BRITO PONTES
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COMMITTEE MEMBERS :
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ANA CRISTINA FACUNDO DE BRITO PONTES
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CARLOS NECO DA SILVA JUNIOR
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OTOM ANSELMO DE OLIVEIRA
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FABIANA ROBERTA GONCALVES E SILVA HUSSEIN
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Data: Apr 5, 2024
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Learning difficulties have always constituted challenges inherent to teaching. In this way, many theorists researched how we learn, and proposed methodologies that would facilitate the understanding of the contents. Initially, these methodologies were used in all disciplines, but it was noticed that each one has its particularities, and, consequently, there was a need to research and develop specific methodologies by area, mainly in the Natural Sciences, in particular, in Chemistry. There are several contents relevant to the understanding of Chemistry, among which we highlight Stoichiometry, whose intrinsic learning difficulties can be explained by the existence of three levels of description of matter, which are: macroscopic (observational), submicroscopic (atomic-molecular) and the representational (symbols, formulas and equations). In Stoichiometry, the student must be able to relate the transitions between levels, as well as make use of mathematical relationships and signify such relationships, often through a high capacity for abstraction, which is configured as a learning barrier for students from highschool. Faced with numerous difficulties, some questions remain related to the teaching-learning process, which are brought to students and teachers: How does learning in stoichiometry, mediated by a Potentially Significant Teaching Unit (UEPS), contribute to developing my ability to solve problems of everyday life? How to teach Stoichiometry in High School to promote meaningful learning? From these questions, we aimed, in general, to develop a potentially significant didactic unit on the content of stoichiometry. More specifically, we seek to contextualize the subject and its importance, apprehend the students' level of knowledge after applying the UEPS, analyze the view that teachers have about the use of UEPS for learning stoichiometry, work on mathematical relationships and the balancing equations, and using everyday instruments aiming at a multidimensional understanding of the theme. In this way, we justify, then, the development of a didactic sequence, which is elaborated through qualitative research and based on the theories proposed by Moreira and Ausubel, which can contribute to the understanding of the proposed theme and which allows students to learn the conceptual issues, as well as relate these concepts to situations in everyday life. As a result of the research, we will have the production of a potentially significant didactic unit, which aims to contribute to meaningful learning in Stoichiometry.
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HUGO LEONARDO DANTAS PEREIRA
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DIDACTIC SEQUENCE IN THE TEACHING OF IONIC BONDS: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR IMPROVING PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE
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Advisor : JOAO BOSCO LUCENA DE OLIVEIRA
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COMMITTEE MEMBERS :
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GRAZIELLE TAVARES MALCHER
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JARLEY FAGNER SILVA DO NASCIMENTO
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JEFFERSON ANDREY LOPES MATIAS
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JOAO BOSCO LUCENA DE OLIVEIRA
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Data: May 10, 2024
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Introduction: The obstacles encountered in learning chemical bonds are varied, mainly due to the level of abstraction required to understand such theories. Thus, the use of active methodologies that guarantee the student's protagonism in teaching-learning has been gaining prominence, among them we can mention the Problem Solving methodology and the Didactic Sequence as collaborators in this process. Objective: To develop and evaluate a didactic sequence for teaching ionic bonds using the active methodology "Learning Based on Problem Solving" for 2nd grade high school students at a private school in Natal. Method: This is a qualitative research with descriptive objectives to be carried out in a private school in the city of Natal/Rio Grande do Norte. The study sample will consist of 30 students from the 2nd year of high school. For data collection, four instruments were developed, of which two are individual questionnaires and two experimental investigative scripts to be used by students. Expected Results: It is expected to develop students' reflective capacity, in order to enrich the teaching-learning process in the context of ionic bonds. Final considerations: The use of active methodologies can serve as collaborators in the student training process in high school.
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FRANCISCA RÉGIA ÁVILA DOS SANTOS
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Teaching unit for teaching the concept of mixtures and solutions from a Developmental perspective
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Advisor : ALESSANDRO AUGUSTO DE BARROS FACANHA
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COMMITTEE MEMBERS :
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ALESSANDRO AUGUSTO DE BARROS FACANHA
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LUIZ ALBERTO DA SILVA JUNIOR
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PETRONILDO BEZERRA DA SILVA
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Data: May 24, 2024
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This research is characterized as a training experience with the objective of characterizing the influence of a didactic unit for teaching the concepts of chemical solutions in a context of chemistry classes in a high school, which adopts the Planned Training Theory as a theoretical framework. of Mental Actions and Concepts, due to the possibility of following both the process of assimilation of concepts and the methodological didactic planning related to the development of an educational product focused on didactics applied to the teaching of chemistry. Methodologically, it is structured around the elaboration of a guiding reference scheme, adopted as the scheme of the complete guiding basis of action (EBOCA), which presupposes the desired orientation for teaching planning due to characterizing the maximum degree of generalization about the concept. of solutions applied to the secondary education level. As a result, it presents the diagnostic aspects and the process of restructuring student guidance based on the execution of a didactic unit. The results bring qualitative aspects of the change in orientation, which, despite not constituting a reconfiguration of the orientation in its entirety, enable a discussion in relation to the influence of developmental didactics in the context of the formation of chemical concepts.
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ELTER EDUARDO BEZERRA DA ROCHA
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A SEQUENCE OF ACTIVITIES TO TEACHING REDOX PHENOMENA USING PROBLEM SOLVING METHODOLOGY
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Advisor : JOAO BOSCO LUCENA DE OLIVEIRA
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COMMITTEE MEMBERS :
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GRAZIELLE TAVARES MALCHER
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JOAO BOSCO LUCENA DE OLIVEIRA
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JEFFERSON ANDREY LOPES MATIAS
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SAULO GREGORY CARNEIRO FONSECA
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Data: May 29, 2024
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Teaching electrochemistry is very challenging for chemistry teachers. It is common for a large portion of high school students to perceive chemistry as difficult to understand. This often occurs due to its abstraction, especially when dealing with knowledge related to redox phenomena. In this regard, many studies investigate and demonstrate the potential of the Problem-Solving Methodology (PSM) for science and chemistry education. Therefore, the objective of this dissertation is to propose a sequence of activities for teaching redox phenomena using the methodological approach of PSM. To achieve this, a sequence of activities was developed for teaching redox phenomena in basic education, constituting the educational product to be presented for the professional master's degree in chemistry - PROFQUI. The study conducted incorporates elements of action research, utilizing participant observation of the activities conducted during chemistry classes. The proposed activities follow the theoretical and methodological guidelines of problem-solving. The initial application, aimed at validation, was conducted with fifteen students from the third grade of a private school in the city of Natal. Prior to that, a diagnostic evaluation (DE) was carried out, which used a questionnaire with open and closed questions as a data collection instrument. The obtained data will be categorized and analyzed qualitatively using content analysis method. These results will complement the evaluation of the sequence of activities.
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