FLUID MECHANICS AND THE HUMAN BODY - A TEACHING PROPOSAL THROUGH THE INTERDISCIPLINARY ISLANDS OF RATIONALITY
The current Brazilian social scenario has shown that a significant portion of the population is unaware of science and its means of producing knowledge. In the educational field, there is a low interest of students towards the discipline of physics, the use of traditional evaluative methods as well as the low use of experiments in physics classes. Not far from these notes, the current curricular guidelines show that teachers should structure their practice through methodological approaches that promote: student engagement; conditions for them to be active subjects in the teaching-learning process; the articulation of school knowledge through Transversal Contemporary Themes (TCT) making use of interdisciplinarity; a general formation that allows the development of a scientific culture and other formative principles. Faced with so many challenges, we present in this work a didactic sequence that uses the human cardiovascular system as a context to explore topics of fluid mechanics. Its structure was established by the teaching methodology Interdisciplinary Islands of Rationality (IIR) which includes in its assumptions Scientific and Technological Literacy (ACT) and the elaboration of experimental scripts that prioritized the didactic approach of teaching by investigation. The preliminary results of the application of the didactic sequence showed good results for the challenges proposed to the teachers. As a product of this dissertation, a guide was prepared to assist teachers in planning a didactic sequence that has the principles mentioned above.