POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT TEACHING UNIT: LEARNING OF ENTROPY CONCEPTS AND THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
Physics Teaching, Potentially Significant Teaching Unit, Entropy.
This Potentially Significant Unit proposal aims to contribute to the occurrence of meaningful learning because in this approach the concepts are approached progressively in terms of complexity, the evaluation is carried out during the entire implementation and not only at the end of the teaching/learning process, with strategies that stimulate the student's creativity, relating the concepts with subjects present in the student's daily life. Bearing in mind that, although the UEPS constructed is potentially significant, it must be adapted to the public and to the student's knowledge. This methodology, which encompasses several diversified activities, from individual to collaborative (in groups), favors the participation of students in a more active way in the teaching/learning process, providing a construction of knowledge richer in meanings, therefore, we built a Unit Significant Teaching Course for learning the concepts of Entropy, the statistical approach to temperature, that culminates with the reformulation of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.