Ciência & Educação (Bauru) versão impressa ISSN 1516-7313
DORNELES, Pedro Fernando Teixeira; ARAUJO, Ives Solano e VEIT,
Eliane Angela. Integration between computational and
experimental activities as instructional resources in teaching
electromagnetism in General Physics. Ciênc. educ. (Bauru)
[online]. 2012, vol.18, n.1, pp. 99-122. ISSN 1516-7313.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1516-73132012000100007. The purpose
was to investigate ways to integrate computational and
experimental activities to make them complementary, thus helping
students to achieve meaningful learning of physics concepts and
to understand some ideas about scientific models. We designed a
didactical approach covering electromagnetism topics at the
level of General Physics based on Ausubel's meaningful learning
theory, Bunge's epistemological view about scientific models and
science development and Vygotsky's social-interaction theory.
This didactical approach was applied to a class of undergraduate
physics students. The results show that the i