Laboratório de química na escola – um espaço para além das aulas práticas.

Abstract

The school environment can awake in the student important experiences improving their knowledge after classes. The library, the informatics classroom and even the school’s corridor can start to be idea generators’ places, awaking in the student the feeling of learn while they are experiencing each environment. Among these places, the Chemistry’s laboratory can cause a deep learning due its power of investigate, clarify and prove theoretical fundaments seen in the books and classroom. The Laboratory shows an universe of opportunities for the schoolwork’s development to the purpose of to be more close the relationship with the student. Also it promotes a feeling of belonging from this physic space that most of the time is not utilized. . Thinking about this, the project “Curse of Organization of the Chemistry Laboratory Environment of Science of the E.E.F.M. Dr. César Cais” located in the Bairro Farias Brito Fortaleza/Ce was realized, the course made the students of the school participate in actions that normally are realized by the professors or pedagogic coordination. Aiming to promote the use of this space targeting the feeling of belonging to it by the student through their organization, it was decided that the course would present a workload of 10 hours, distributed in five meetings in extracurricular schedules. The course was intended for high school students part of the 1st or 2nd year. The classes were planned and executed as follows: Introductory class (1º day); presentation safety’s basic notions in a laboratory (2º day); class about glassware (3º day); learning about some kinds of reagents (4º day); planning and fixation of laboratory’s rules (5º day). The results for each day were the fixation of illustrative safety signs and glassware, organization of materials, preparation of safety rules for use of laboratory and cataloging of reagents. Content grading, dynamic and playful strategies were planned in order to evaluate the students during the course.. At the end of the course, each student received a certificate issued by PIBID-UFC.