Laboratório itinerante de química: uma proposta do PIBID para melhorar o ensino de Química nas escolas de ensino médio de Marabá e região

Abstract

The precariousness of public schools in terms of physical spaces for the laboratory has become a challenge for teachers and students. Many schools do not have laboratories and those that do are most often used as warehouses. Based on this difficulty of having an appropriate space to carry out a chemical experiment, the PIBID subproject of the Licentiate in Chemistry course aimed to create an Itinerant Laboratory, which consists of facilitating and providing solutions for deficits related to laboratory practices by the high school students, since for the most part they do not have classes of this scope, only theoretical classes in the classroom. The Traveling Chemistry Laboratory consists of making kits containing chemical experiments, along with booklets with explanations about each experiment. Throughout the project, several activities were developed, such as: getting to know the school environment in 3 public schools in Marabá/PA, located in different centers of the city; analyze the syllabus and methodologies used in the classroom; carry out bibliographic research on possible experiments to be developed; make the experimental kits; produce primers for using the kits and carry out demonstrations of the experimental kits in the high school grades corresponding to each experiment and also in squares, science fairs and other scientific events. The activities developed sought an improvement in the teaching-learning process of the discipline of Chemistry, due to a teaching often conducted in an uninteresting and not very understandable way. At the end of the PIBID project, it was verified its importance, as a facilitator of knowledge, arousing the interest of students in the contents that come to have meanings for nature and science that are not possible when studying chemistry only in theory, and also by students undergraduate course in Chemistry, who were able to experience teaching in public schools.