2024
Pathways for Sciences Knowledge
Name: Pathways for Sciences Knowledge
Code: QUI13941M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Biological Sciences, Physics, Chemistry
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
This CU is aimed at training Pre-school and Primary school teachers. The four elements, Water, Earth, Fire and Air will be the starting and ending point in the adventure of knowledge development that is done by activating the observation and the questioning.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Learn to understand the world through natural sciences.
Improve scientific culture.
Promote the use of scientific language.
Stimulate the desire for science through the adventurous experience of different paths in the construction of knowledge.
Relate to questioning and scientific creativity.
Develop skills of rigorous and sensory observation, questioning and curiosity.
Recognize the diversity of methods associated with different questions and problems; namely in the scientific observation and experimentation.
Plan and explore laboratory activities that allow to reveal the properties of materials and understand the observed phenomena.
Develop skills in the use of instruments.
Promote the use of the senses in the construction of knowledge.
Record observations in graphic form as a pathway for knowledge acquirement on living beings.
Improve scientific culture.
Promote the use of scientific language.
Stimulate the desire for science through the adventurous experience of different paths in the construction of knowledge.
Relate to questioning and scientific creativity.
Develop skills of rigorous and sensory observation, questioning and curiosity.
Recognize the diversity of methods associated with different questions and problems; namely in the scientific observation and experimentation.
Plan and explore laboratory activities that allow to reveal the properties of materials and understand the observed phenomena.
Develop skills in the use of instruments.
Promote the use of the senses in the construction of knowledge.
Record observations in graphic form as a pathway for knowledge acquirement on living beings.
Contents
From the four elements to the diversity of questioning and knowledge methods:
- Why don't some objects sink? From the phenomena experience to the creation of a new idea: Experimenting with Archimedes.
- What is a wave? From the experience of producing waves in a lake surface to the wave tank of the laboratory. Interference and diffraction. Sound and light.
- Light and color in the Nature. Light effects on water ripples. The refraction and total reflection of the light. Technological applications (optical fiber). The light paths in the lenses.
- The autotrophic beings of the montado: algae and plants - photosynthesis and respiration.
- From animal breathing with Lavoisier to the concept of energy.
- Color, biodiversity and conservation of species.
- The effect of fire on altering ecosystems.
- From the diversity of materials in nature to the exploration of their properties in the laboratory.
- From physical and chemical transformations in nature to the study of processes in the labora
- Why don't some objects sink? From the phenomena experience to the creation of a new idea: Experimenting with Archimedes.
- What is a wave? From the experience of producing waves in a lake surface to the wave tank of the laboratory. Interference and diffraction. Sound and light.
- Light and color in the Nature. Light effects on water ripples. The refraction and total reflection of the light. Technological applications (optical fiber). The light paths in the lenses.
- The autotrophic beings of the montado: algae and plants - photosynthesis and respiration.
- From animal breathing with Lavoisier to the concept of energy.
- Color, biodiversity and conservation of species.
- The effect of fire on altering ecosystems.
- From the diversity of materials in nature to the exploration of their properties in the laboratory.
- From physical and chemical transformations in nature to the study of processes in the labora
Teaching Methods
Water, Earth, Fire and Air - four elements that allow a sensitive connection to the world - will be the starting and ending point in the adventure of knowledge construction.
All themes start abroad, experiencing various phenomena, activating rigorous observation and encouraging questioning. The use of drawing works as driver of observation and morphological knowledge of animals and plants. This questioning will be continued and reinforced in the laboratory context when applicable, developing different methods of interpretation and solution search.
Various instruments are used (microscopes; scale; ruler or other measuring instruments) but also appeals the senses use (sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing).
Continuous assessment regime: 1) presentations of investigative pathways (small group SG) (40%) + development of the investigative path chosen (IP) (40%) + individual report from one activity carried out (20%).
Final evaluation regime: written exam (100%).
All themes start abroad, experiencing various phenomena, activating rigorous observation and encouraging questioning. The use of drawing works as driver of observation and morphological knowledge of animals and plants. This questioning will be continued and reinforced in the laboratory context when applicable, developing different methods of interpretation and solution search.
Various instruments are used (microscopes; scale; ruler or other measuring instruments) but also appeals the senses use (sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing).
Continuous assessment regime: 1) presentations of investigative pathways (small group SG) (40%) + development of the investigative path chosen (IP) (40%) + individual report from one activity carried out (20%).
Final evaluation regime: written exam (100%).
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
