Astronomy classes in the high school, are usually used only to elucidate some physical issues when they could be addressed in a way to make students learn physics using astronomy. Astronomy is no longer a curricular subject ...

The student learning obtained by memorizing the information transmitted by the teacher's narrative, for further reproduction in the assessment, shows that the classic way of teaching, leads to a mechanical and not significant ...

This study aims to propose a didactic sequence involving the use of resources and diversified activities applied to the teaching of Conservation of Mechanical Energy and its applications. The didactic sequence was based ...

This dissertation is intended to be used by high school teachers and contains a set of concepts that leads to the understanding of entropy and its applications in the classroom. It begins with the definition of thermodynamics, ...