Experenciar para aprender: relevância das atividades experimentais para o ensino de ciências

Abstract

Science teaching that understands experimental activities as drivers of doing and learning scientific promotes meaningful learning. Therefore, the research has as a general objective, to explain the relevance of experimental activities as a regular component in the pedagogical practice aimed at science teaching. Specifically, it aimed to understand the theoretical-experimental approach as a didactic strategy for science teaching; elucidate the scientific awakening that possibly occurs in students who experience experimental activities and establish methodological reflections for science teaching based on practical experience. The methodology consists of research with a qualitative approach and bibliographic type, constituting a monograph. It can be concluded that experimental activities represent great relevance for the learning of science teaching, giving them meaning, making it interesting and effective, allowing students to establish relationships between science content and their practical life, as well as, scientific thinking and doing.