O caso de Grace Fryer e as garotas fantasmas: uma proposta de sequência didática com abordagem CTS para o estudo da radioatividade

Abstract

The STS education emphasizes that it is necessary to incorporate themes into the classroom that connect with the context of the students, mainly to generate interest of the students in the science theme. This was considered when choosing the story of Grace Fryer and the ghost girls as a context for constructing a methodology that promotes learning about radioactivity. The proposal is promising and innovative because it considers cross-cutting themes such as labor laws, women's law and fake news, and to use theoretical-methodological assumptions of multimedia learning. The objective of this work was to apply a didactic sequence based on the social context of the story of Grace Fryer and radium girls within the perspective of meaningful learning and STS education to promote actions and decision making by high school students of a public school located in Mari, Paraíba, through the cooperation between scientific and ethical contents. We describe the sequence of lessons and used a qualitative approach to analyze the students' written, visual and oral production in order to validate the proposed didactic intervention. We consider that the proposal allows for effective implementation of each step from the measured subject.