Laboratório virtual de ensino de química – projeto LAVENQ

Abstract

The Lavenq project was created with the aim of producing videos for teaching experiments in the area of chemistry with themes aimed at learning high school content. The idea is justified by the lack of infrastructure in basic education schools in the region where the Uruaçu Campus is located, which often do not have or even cannot maintain a science laboratory. The proposal is also justified by the lack of virtual materials that complement the experimental learning of chemistry; a situation evidenced by the demands of the remote education in which we are inserted. The proposal involves the planning, elaboration and execution of videos about the experimentation of scientific contents, embodying the creation of a virtual laboratory. In this one, students from the Licentiate Degree in Chemistry and students from the Course in Analysis and Systems Development acted as producers of didactic- pedagogical material, showing that projects that combine skills present in different courses can be a strategy for interdisciplinary teaching. In a period of four months, the group managed to produce two videos, which were about inorganic functions and chemical reactions. The videos were published on the YouTube platform and made available to the academic community. An open questionnaire was applied to the students participating in the team where they pointed out that experiencing teaching and learning methodologies and expanding interpersonal relationships were taken as positive points. We realized that this proposal made communication between students from different courses closer and allowed, therefore, exchanges of enriching experiences.