Resumo Sendo a atividade experimental em Química uma prática indispensável no processo de construção do conhecimento desta ciência, a ausência de equipados e modernos laboratórios é o principal motivo no distanciamento entre o ensino teórico e a prática, problema este vivenciado pela maioria das escolas de Ensino Médio no Brasil. Devido à crescente globalização da informação e à necessidade de melhoria na qualidade do ensino, surge a necessidade em utilizar novas metodologias no processo educacional, de forma a despertar o interesse do aprendiz. Este trabalho apresenta a utilização de laboratórios virtuais, que simulam experimentos químicos, como recurso didático-pedagógico para auxiliar o professor na prática docente de química por meio da realização de atividades experimentais no ensino médio. Verificou-se que a utilização do software educacional de química provocou grande aprovação por parte do corpo escolar consultado. No que se refere ao melhoramento da aprendizagem, a utilização do recurso computacional contribuiu de forma significativa na compreensão dos conteúdos pelos discentes e possibilitou a relação entre teoria e prática.
Palavras-Chave: Atividade experimental, Ensino de química, Laboratório virtual
Abstract The experimental activity is an indispensable practice in the process of knowledge development in chemistry and the lack of modern and equipped laboratories is one of the main reasons of the separation between theoretical approach and the practical one. This problem is experienced by most of high schools in Brazil. Due to the growing of globalizing information and the need to improve the quality of education, there is a growing interest in the using of new methods in the educational
Chitosan membranes were obtained by dissolving the biopolymer in a solution of 5% acetic acid (v/v). Chemical modification of chitosan was done by the addition of thioacetamide in order to obtain a material that absorbed textile dyes more efficiently. The material was analyzed by infrared spectroscopy. The spectra showed that the introduction of thioacetamide to the structure of chitosan did not significantly modify the bands of the biopolymer. The spectra included bands attributed to the C=S bond. The Langmuir isotherm was used to experimentally determine absorption capacity data, and showed that modification of chitosan with thioacetamide caused a significant increase in this parameter. The kinetics of adsorption was studied. It was found that systems that have used chitosan modified with thioacetamide attained equilibrium within 60 minutes of the start of the reaction. The experimental data was modified by use of the kinetic model of pseudo-second-order, and the equilibrium constants were determined
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