Science and Cinema: Physics and Chemistry Teaching in Secondary School through Everyday Images

Abstract

Traditional classroom teaching methodology does not adjust to the current necessities of the students, however long presentations, quantitative evaluation and rote learning still dominate in the classroom, which limits the student to retain and repeat information provided by the teacher. A change in the education system becomes necessary. This change has to be based on the interaction between the equals, the contextualization and collaborative work, where teaching contents would have an applied approach with a student as a centre of the learning-teaching process and based on the qualitative and formative assessment system. In this work, the contents of the subject Physics and Chemistry of the 3rd year of compulsory secondary education were broken down, where appeared the concepts that can be introduced in the classroom with a help of animations. Moreover, a list of problems was presented, that allows students to discover the importance of the explained scientific contents and interrelate them to famous movies. It is a multidisciplinary project as it works in cooperation with such subject as Language and Literature and Plastic, Visual and Artistic Education. The work pretends to lay the foundations so that any teacher could apply this methodology, collection activities and assessment exercises based on the learning standards of the curriculum of secondary education, adding a temporization so that it can be used with success during the study period.