Teaching Solar Energy with Virtual Learning Environment, Demonstrations, Experiments, and Games
Among the challenges of today, the teaching of a contemporary, interesting and contextualized Physics is essential for meaningful learning of this Science by high school students. Based on this idea, this dissertation presents a teaching proposal on Solar Energy, distributed along three lines of study. The first one deals on the production of energy in the sun, the second one, on the propagation of this energy through the space and EarthŠs atmosphere, and the third line considers the absorption of this energy and its transformation into electricity. The methodology consisted in the creation of a hybrid course on the subject with the availability of a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), demonstrations, quiz games, among others, inserted in a Teaching Sequence (TS). This TS provides innovative and diversided active methodologies based on the use of gadgets (computers, tablets or mobile phones) to perform previously the activities available in the VLE, and in the following, classroom activities and discussions mediated by the teacher.