Strategies for Teaching Chemistry: the History of Chemistry in a mini-course for PIBID scholarship holders

História da Química num minicurso para os bolsistas do PIBID

Abstract

In this paper, we introduced the results of an investigation about science’ teaching and learning through a brief course on the chemistry’history, for a few weeks during the COVID-19 pandemic. The teaching strategy was carried out with scholarship holders' PIBID of the dual degree in chemical and biology’ science licentiate course at the Amazonas Federal University (UFAM) and chemistry’degree licentiate at the Catarinense Institute Federal (IFC), a working partnership between both institutions education during pandemic. The third institution that was also present in this remote partnership was the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), contributing with remote classes for both PIBID groups of the UFAM and IFC Degree courses. The results were collected according to Bardin's procedures by an open questions' questionnaire as an empirical methodology for content analysis. The results indicated that the didactic intervention, with a contextualized approach to chemical science, the students could better understand and assimilate the many controversial episodes in the development and construction of the hypotheses and theories that fundamentals of the basic science.