The focus of this thesis was to find and evaluate the information resources available to teachers, in the context of creating or conducting demonstrational and student experiments in the Physics of the Microworld at high school. Another goal of the thesis was the creation of four sets of aids for experiments from various areas of microworld physics taught at the high school level. These sets contain instructions for teachers and worksheets for pupils. Another goal was to make the sets portable, which all four met. Part of this work is a description of the created experimental sets, worksheets for pupils and texts for teachers. The experimental sets will be stored on the premises of the Department of Physics Education and will be available for loan to teachers for teaching purposes.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-24T19:45:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Romeu Nunes de Freitas.pdf: 2480856 bytes, checksum: f53956ff3db6efc4cdba2b4616fc6bf4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Facing the challenge to insert topics of Modern and Contemporary Physics in basic education high school, the educational Product called – Focus on Photon: relations between color, frequency and electromagnetic radiation energy – was developed, and its application was analyzed. The material produced consists of a teaching unit comprising four lessons in which the concept of photon is worked through theoretical views related to the photoelectrical effect, LEDs functioning and photodiode sensors. This proposition to teach Physics took the meaningful learning theory presented by Ausubel and Vygotsky’s mediation as theoretical background. The use of experimental activities as facilitators of a more active posture regarding the teaching-learning process along with the contextualization of Physics approached in the classroom aimed at providing students with a better understanding of some of the devices employed around them under the light of the current scientific and technological development. Taking into consideration the results of applying this educational Product to the teaching reality, the teaching proposal developed can be considered as a potential tool to insert Modern and Contemporary Physics to the high school curriculum. / Frente ao desafio de inserir assuntos de Física Moderna e Contemporânea no nível médio da Educação Básica, efetuou-se o desenvolvimento do Produto educacional intitulado – O Fóton em Foco: relações entre cor, frequência e energia de radiações eletromagnéticas – e a análise decorrente da aplicação do mesmo. O material produzido consiste em uma unidade didática composta por quatro Aulas, nestas a concepção de fóton é trabalhada sob os enfoques teóricos relacionados ao efeito fotoelétrico, ao funcionamento de LEDs e aos sensores fotodiodos. Na citada proposição de Ensino de Física, foram levados em conta: as teorias da aprendizagem significativa de Ausubel e da mediação de Vygotsky como marco referencial teórico; o uso de atividades experimentais como meios potencialmente facilitadores em uma perspectiva investigativa na qual o educando possa assumir uma postura mais ativa no respectivo processo de ensino-aprendizagem; e a contextualização da Física abordada em sala de aula para que os educandos possam compreender alguns dispositivos empregados à sua volta ante o atual desenvolvimento científico e tecnológico. Da aplicação do Produto educacional em duas realidades de ensino, a proposta de ensino desenvolvida pode ser considerada como uma ferramenta potencial para a inserção de Física Moderna e Contemporânea.

Title: Using dataloggers in physics teaching (focused on Vernier experimental system) Author: Petr Kácovský Department: Department of Physics Education Supervisor: Mgr. Pavel Böhm Supervisor's e-mail address: pavel.bohm@mff.cuni.cz Abstract: Modernizing equipment enables schools to involve advanced computer- aided systems in physics teaching. This work especially focuses on systems capable of recording and storing measured data for later evaluation - the dataloggers. The introduction of this work is devoted to a survey among physics teachers that should investigate what form of instructions they prefer; then a brief search of existing ma- terials follows. The main part of the work consists of newly created instructions for experiments with dataloggers of the Vernier experimental system, primarily designed to serve tea- chers to implement physics experiments in their teaching. The instructions always include a description how to prepare and undertake the measurement, how to process the measured data and what questions and tasks for students can be connected with this part of physics. Experiments described in this work mainly focus on secondary school thermodynamics (or more precisely on molecular physics and thermals) and their thematic intersection is energy, its forms, transmission and conservation.