Teaching of Physics in Elementary School: analysis of reasoning in solving “physical activity knowledge”

• Main Authors: Pedro Donizete Colombo Junior, Ariane Baffa Lourenço, Lúcia Helena Sasseron, Anna Maria Pessoa de Carvalho
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2012-10-01
• Series: Investigações em Ensino de Ciências
• Subjects: physics education; elementary school; argumentation; Toulmin
• Online Access: http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID302/v17_n2_a2012.pdf

This article discusses how students in elementary school build their arguments from solving a problem of knowledge physical proposed by the teacher. The problem chosen, "the problem of the basket, "aims to bring the student to understand the relationship between the height of launching a ball and scope. For analysis of the data we adopt the standard model of argument proposed by Toulmin. The results show the potential to work activities in the classroom and physical knowledge argumentative processes aimed at school. It also shows that the Toulmin model proved extremely useful in our analysis for understanding the processes of argument. Toulmin's model has proved extremely useful in our analysis for understanding the reasoning processes.