This is a proposal for the use of experimentation to teach electricity and magnetism
in the 9th grade of Elementary School, which was carried out together with the
Supervised Internship at the José Roberto Tadros Education Center - SESC in two
9th grade classes, with a quantity total of 70 students. The general objective of this
work is to demonstrate that the use of experimentation can provide meaningful
learning, and the specific objectives are: to investigate through observation,
relevant characteristics of students for organization and planning of conducting;
identify students' prior knowledge; use experiments to teach electricity and
magnetism; and relate theoretical knowledge to experimental knowledge. This
work is divided into four moments: observation, conducting, experimentation and
data collection. This is based on the Theory of Meaningful Learning, proposed by
David Ausubel in which a previous knowledge is related to a new knowledge,
giving rise to a new knowledge present in the student's cognitive structure. During
the project, two activities are proposed to students, one at the end of observation
and the other at the end of experimentation. Thus, when analyzing the results
obtained through the responses, it was found that learning, in fact, was significant.
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