Renewable Energies as Experimental Practices in Physics Teachingin the Education ofYouth and Adults

Abstract

Energy sources for electricitygeneration have been the focus of numerous researches, driven by the increase in environmental concerns, seeking to minimize the environmental impacts generated by fossil fuels. This paper presents renewable energies as experimental practices in teaching physics in the Youth and Adult Education (YAE) modalityattheTeacher Nelson Alves Ferreira State School, located in thecityof Manaus/AM, showing the interdisciplinarity between the concepts applied to physics, the development of experimental practices involving renewable energies (solar, wind, hydroelectric and geothermal) and their application in the physics program content. It is observed that the teaching ofphysicsatYAEisscarce, where the teacher finds the cause of the difficulties in the student's learning, in the education system that does not offer him the necessary conditions to prepare his classes, and the student, in turn, attributes unsatisfactory learning to the teacher, to the school, to the abstract content, to his disinterest with the discipline and sometimes to his professional work . Environmental education is increasingly becoming an instrument of social transformation for discussion in different areas and contexts, where interdisciplinarity is indispensable for the implementation of an intelligent process of curriculum construction in the classroom. The educator/ student relationship is achieved by building knowledge, linking renewable energies to the teaching of physics.