COSMETICS AS THEMATIC TO APPROACH ORGANIC FUNCTIONS IN CHEMISTRY TEACHING

Abstract

The science teaching has become more complex each passing day regarding its approach in an attempt to promote a more effective content learning, what requires from the teachers reflection concerning their education teaching, aiming at the use of different teaching strategies, such as the approach of chemistry contents through their relation to a social context in which they are inserted, as the use of cosmetics. This paper reports on a pedagogical intervention project in the subject of Supervised Stage IV, which aimed at teaching the chemistry content of organic functions by means of the “cosmetics” thematic. This work was carried out in the form of a minicourse, during two meetings, for students of the Third year of high school in an integrated technical course in chemistry in Itumbiara-GO. In the first meeting it was made use of a questionnaire and two texts, both regarding the thematic. The second meeting dealt with the organic functions identification and their relation to the cosmetics. At the end of the minicourse it was noted that by correlating themes that are part of students' everyday life to Chemistry, they feel more involved and motivated by Chemistry subject, because they can understand its importance and applicability.