O uso do “anime fullmetal alchemist : brotherhood” como recurso didático para o ensino das leis ponderais

Abstract

The teaching of Chemistry presents challenges related to the understanding of abstract concepts, especially in the study of the Laws of Definite Proportions, fundamental to understanding chemical transformations and the conservation of matter. In this context, it becomes relevant to investigate pedagogical strategies that bring scientific content closer to the cultural universe of students. Thus, this work analyzes the pedagogical potential of the anime Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood as a didactic resource for contextualizing the Laws of Definite Proportions in Chemistry teaching. The research was guided by the following research question: how can the anime contribute to the approach of these concepts in high school? The objective was to present pedagogical possibilities for contextualizing the Laws of Definite Proportions through the narrative of the work. Methodologically, this is a qualitative, documentary, and descriptive research, based on the assumptions of Gil (2008). The corpus consisted of episodes that present conceptual relationships with the contributions of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Joseph Louis Proust, and John Dalton. The results and discussions indicate that the anime's narrative makes it possible to establish pedagogical analogies between the principle of equivalent exchange and the fundamentals of the Laws of Definite Proportions, favoring the contextualization of content and expanding the possibilities for didactic mediation in secondary education.