THE METAVISUAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE ON THE RACE OF A CHEMICAL REACTION
This study aims to investigate how undergraduate students at a public university revise and reconstruct chemistry content in a metavisual activity that deals with the effect of temperature on reaction speed, as well as its relationship with representational levels. This is a qualitative study presented in multipaper format. Initially, a literature review was carried out to identify students' alternative conceptions and difficulties with regard to the factors that alter the race of a reaction, with the main result being an inadequate understanding of the phenomena caused by the factors. As a result, a metavisual activity was developed with undergraduate students from the Federal University of UFABC who were studying Chemistry Teaching Practices II. The data was collected and analyzed based on the records of the activities prepared by the students, such as audio recordings, drawings, diagrams and notes, moments in which they debated in groups to carry out an experimental procedure in order to solve a problem involving solid iron with aqueous sulfuric acid solution, then elaborate and compare possible models explained, and systematize the ideas.