A química do estresse e da felicidade: proposição de uma sequência de ensino investigativo com a abordagem contextualizada.

Abstract

The investigative teaching sequence (SEI) is a didactic strategy that can be used by teachers through interconnected activities, designed to teach content, step by step, in which students investigate a proposed problem and try to find solutions and considerations for answering it. Within this context, this project proposes a didactic sequence of investigative teaching, approaching the chemistry of happiness from dopamine, serotonin, endorphin and oxytocin, and the chemistry of stress, cortisol, adrenaline and noradrenaline, in a contextualized way, for teaching average in chemistry. The research methodology involved bibliographical research in publications of events in the area of chemistry teaching and magazines in the area, and it was found that the use of this theme is still little explored. The elaboration of the teaching sequence was elaborated based on 4 stages: Contextualization and proposition of the problem, Raising of hypotheses and resolution of the problem, Systematization of the problem and Individual learning. Contents about organic functions were addressed. The work context allowed the active participation of students in activities.