O ENSINO DE NANOCIÊNCIA E NANOTECNOLOGIA NO ENSINO MÉDIO: COMO INICIAR ESSA ABORDAGEMCIENTÍFICA

Abstract

Young researchers tend to have contact with scientifically emerging themes, usually at the undergraduate level, when they develop a scientific initiation opportunely. However, providing this contact in high school awakens and encourages young people to start a career in scien-tific research. In this regard, the multidisciplinary area of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (N&N) has stood out in several fields of knowledge. Given this context, this study qualitatively surveyed, through a questionnaire, the level of knowledge of high school students about the terms “Nanoscience” and “Nanotechnology”. The analysis of the questionnaires carried out by 160 students revealed a low level of knowledge about the themes. In addition, of the students who answered that they had knowledge about the themes, the computerization environment was the internet with the highest percentage. The school environment had one of the lowest percentages where students had contact with the terms. In the proposal to carry out a practi-cal class to better understand the concepts and definitions of nanosciences and nanotech-nology, the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles was presented as an excellent didactic tool to introduce the terms in high school.