Estudando semicondutores no ensino fundamental II

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the feasibility of introducing concepts of Modern and Contemporary Physics in the sixth year of Elementary School II from the perspective of establishing a process of Scientific Literacy. For this we use the concept of semiconductors, their characteristics and some of their technological applications as the object of studies. We proposed and developed a teaching sequence based on a set of interactive activities, which would allow the discussion on the models of structure of matter, moving on to the concept of conducting in material media and reaching the concept of semiconductors. During the development of this teaching sequence, aspects associated with the use and impacts of current technology, which are based on semiconductor materials, were discussed. The teaching sequence was developed almost entirely in the virtual format, due to the pandemic of COVID19, in a private school and the results, analyzed from the scientific literacy indicators proposed by Sasseron and Pizarro, show that the students were appropriating the scientific vocabulary, becoming capable of elaborating explanatory arguments for the presented phenomena.