Development of meaningful learning on the subject of thermal conductivity: a proposal for initial teacher training in a normal course

This article is the result of what was experienced during the application of a Research Project in the Professional Master 's Degree in Science and Mathematics Teaching at PPGECIMAT, Franciscan University of Santa Maria, RS. The purpose of this study was to investigate the contributions of the use of Information and Communication Technology (TIC) and Experimental Activities (AEx) in the process of meaning of the topic Thermal Conductivity, based on a perspective of Ausubel's Theory of Significant Learning (TAS) in students of a Normal Course of a public school in Santa Rosa, RS, in the year 2018. It is understood that the graduates of the courses of this nature are those that will awaken in the students the taste for science and scientific knowledge. To achieve the goal, the students were organized into three work teams and made use of technological and experimental resources. During the nine meetings of eighteen classes proposed in a Learning Unit (UA), there were experiments and activities involving technology such as web research, videos, reports, simulators, infographics, etc., always with the objective of contributing to the development meaningful learning of concepts involving Calorimetry. During the work there was a participation and a significant interest of the students and with the analysis of the pre-test and post-test became evident the appropriation of the concepts about heat, temperature, thermal equilibrium and the forms of heat transfer by the students.