Tecnologia educacional em física (phet - physics education technology) uma ferramenta auxiliar no ensino de química.

Abstract

This paper aims to show the importance of simulation in chemistry classes in high school, to improve learning for students. For this the simulator used will be the Physical Educational Technology (PhET), it is used as an aid in expository lectures. The motivation of this work is due to the remarkable difficulty teachers have in motivating their students through traditional teaching methods and already saturated by students, resulting in the lack of interest of those who can not make sense of why they are studying a particular subject of Chemistry. The evaluation was made in a state school in the city of Horizonte in two second-year classes, one of them was given a kinetic class in the traditional way without the help of the simulator, in another the traditional classroom with the PhET in the laboratory School computer. Soon after the exercise was applied to two groups to evaluate the level of understanding of the subject studied. It is hoped in this work that students who had lecture with the support of the simulator will have assimilated more content than students who had just lectures.