EXPERIMENTATION IN CHEMISTRY TEACHING: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Bruna Nunes Mont’mor– Universidad Columbia del Paraguay

Karen Santos D’ Oliveira– Universidad Columbia del Paraguay

Geovana Barbosa Ogione– Universidad Columbia del Paraguay

Marluce Andrade de Almeida– Universidad Columbia del Paraguay

Josiângela Farias Zanon Ventorim– Universidad Columbia del Paraguay

Maria José Silva Almeida Trindade– Universidad Columbia del Paraguay

ABSTRACT

Research in science education emphasizes that experimentation plays an important role in understanding the relationships between nature and its processes. Chemistry is a factual and natural science, because its system of knowledge is created from facts that are natural. Experimental work as a means of teaching the natural sciences is widespread among teachers, and it can be said that experimental work plays a central and important role in learning. However, one of the current challenges of teaching chemistry is based on creating a connection between the knowledge learned in scientific areas and the daily lives of students. For this, chemistry teachers must break with traditional teaching, where practical classes are used as a teaching method, since the use of this resource not only combines theory and practice, but also makes the student an active actor in the construction of knowledge.

Keywords: experimentation, teaching, chemistry.