A utilização de ciência forense como estratégia para a aprendizagem de conceitos físicos no contexto do ensino médio

Abstract

This course conclusion paper approaches the use of forensic science topics as a context for teaching physics in high school. A proposal was developed on this theme with second-year high school students from a state school in the central region of Curitiba. The objective was to understand how this proposal could contribute to the student’s learning of physical concepts. The proposal was elaborated based on the inquiry-based teaching perspective. The developed activity was applied in two classes in the second year of high school, which were divided into small groups for the discussion and realization of the proposed activity, starting from the exhibition of a video with a theme related to forensic science. For data analysis, the Content Analysis method was used. As a result, a significant improvement in students’ understanding of the following categories was observed: establishing video relationships with physical concepts; explanation and understanding of how the instruments work; student perceptions of the importance of physical concepts in fictional crime solving. During the proposal there was a greater involvement on the part of the students in relation to the classes observed before this activity, consequently bringing them closer to physical concepts from the contexts of television series known to them.