Visita virtual ao Museu Curie: possibilidades para a formação inicial do docente

Abstract

The virtual visit to Museums and its importance for teacher training was the theme chosen for an exploration of learning within non-school spaces. Analyzing the initial training of teachers, it is noticed that the exploration of these non-formal spaces does not occur more effectively, in view of the wealth of information that can be obtained in them. This work dealt with the virtual exploration of the Marie Curie Museum as a proposal for the development of a teaching sequence that was applied in the discipline of Workshop on Chemistry Teaching, in the Degree in Chemistry course, aiming at the training of graduates. Data indicate that only 30% of students have already visited a physical museum throughout their school life, and none of them had explored a virtual museum. Despite the importance of these spaces, the theme of museums is not presented in a punctual or continuous way in the initial teacher training process. However, the approach used in this work indicates the need to know and recognize these spaces. The virtual visit to the Curie Museum allowed undergraduates to get to know a non-formal education space, propose and reflect on activities to use as a topic in the classroom.