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TEACHING CHEMISTRY CONTEXTUALIZED THROUGH THE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE “QUEIMADAS”

Teaching Chemistry. Burned. Contextualization

Contextualization in Chemistry Teaching is a valuable tool to provide meaningful and relevant learning to students. The use of socio-environmental themes to contextualize the chemical concepts, in addition to contributing to the understanding of the content, promotes a critical education for the student, creating opportunities for awareness of environmental issues present in their context. The present study had as its main objective to analyze how the socio-environmental theme “burning” is aligned with the teaching of Chemistry, from the perspective of a State School of Elementary and Secondary Education in the municipality of Mirante da Serra - RO, and also to use the socio-environmental issue " burned” as a way to contextualize the concepts of thermochemistry through a didactic sequence. For this, we opted for a research with a qualitative approach, of an applied nature, being classified as to its objectives as exploratory and descriptive, and in relation to procedures such as bibliographic research and field research. Data collection was performed using questionnaires and analyzed using the Content Analysis technique. From the data found, it was noticed that the theme “burnings” is approached from the perspective of the studied school, however, it lacks more depth. It can also be inferred that both the teacher and the students are aware of the relevance of the theme, and the need for awareness of the population, and even that the didactic sequence contributed to the understanding of the chemical concepts presented, and the critical formation of the students about the theme.