ESTUDO DE QUÍMICA ATRAVÉS DOS ALIMENTOS: UMA PROPOSTA PEDAGÓGICA

Abstract

Among the different contextualizing subjects, the theme of food has been widely used as a motivating and generating theme of studies and research. This due to the fact that this theme is part of our daily life, especially of the students’ lives, serving as a link between real life and the concepts of Chemistry, which in turn are somewhat distant from their reality. Based on the theme of food, this study aims to describe and analyze the results obtained through the development of a pedagogical proposal that used the food theme aiming at contextualizing chemistry teaching for high school students from a public school. About 14 third-year high school students from the Previsto de Morais School, in the city of Caiapônia – GO., participated in this proposal. The instruments used for data collection were: an initial questionnaire and another final one, dialogued lectures, lectures and food tasting. The methodology used for the writing and analysis of this study is based on the three pedagogical moments by Delizoicov, Angotti and Pernambuco, which are Initial Problematization (PI), Knowledge Organization (OC) and Knowledge Application (AC). As results, it was found that the problematization of chemistry teaching through the theme of food, in a contextualized way, contributed to the teaching and learning process as well, in a significantly way.