A temática perfume como contextualização no ensino médio de química

Abstract

Perfumes are the object of many people's desire. It is not by chance that the perfume culture is very old and generates many profits. As soon as they appeared, perfumes were used to please the gods in offerings and tributes or in religious temples, but soon they began to serve mainly to the man, which made possible a series of advances in the artisan and small-scale techniques for the extraction of essential oils and the production of perfumes that, in turn, were gradually transposed to large industries, through all the technological advances that our society has witnessed throughout history. Through this theme, this work aims to address the various chemical concepts that it contemplates and, for this, were presented texts that can base chemistry classes for high school, in approaches accessible to students. In these texts, history and the creation of perfumes as a contextualizing theme were prioritized, through which it was intended to encourage interdisciplinarity by bringing together concepts from various areas, focusing on science and technology aimed at society. It was verified the great importance of the use of contextualization as an alternative to improve learning, since, as the contents of the students' daily life were approached, they provided greater motivation and interest, indispensable in the teaching and learning process.