Uso de simulações interactivas como ferramenta didáctica no ensino da conservação da energia mecânica no ensino secundário geral

Abstract

This work presents an active methodology (project-based learning) in the teaching and learning process of the Conservation of Mechanical Energy in General Secondary Education, in the subject of Physics in the 11th grade in Mozambique, covering the updating and collective construction of knowledge mediated by Information and Communication Technologies. The planning and development of this project is supported by Ausubel's Theory of Significant Learning and involves the realisation of experimental activities, using interactive simulations, by the students, as potentially significant material with the aim of instigating them and awakening their interest and motivation to learn. interest and motivation to learn. In this context, a website was developed to make the interactive simulations available, as well as support materials aimed at teaching the Conservation of Mechanical Energy content and scripts for using them. The lessons were designed and implemented in a class at the Nossa Senhora do Livramento T3 Community School, with the help of a didactic sequence consisting of 6 lessons lasting 45 minutes each, with a view to assessing its effectiveness and whether it represented a potentially significant resource for teaching this subject. With the application of this methodology, satisfactory results were obtained, in addition to a conceptual evolution of the concept of energy and its conservation on the part of the students, as well as their involvement during the realisation of the activities.