THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AS A “REMEDY” IN THE TEACHING OF CHEMISTRY: EPISODE – STUDY ON THE INVENTION OF MODERN ATOMIC-MOLECULAR THEORY

In recent years, much has been said about the approach of the history of science and science teaching. We know that this approach can be made using historical episodes in science classes. In this sense, this work aims to bring a historical episode to be worked on in general chemistry classes in high school, as well as in general chemistry classes 1 of university courses. Thus, we will first make some considerations about the importance of the history of science for teaching chemistry. Then, we will bring the episode that analyzes some of the works that formed the basis of modern chemical thought. From the historical episode we worked on, we intend to show the complex construction of modern atomic-molecular theory. However, it is important to emphasize that, for didactic purposes, we cut the debate, bringing up only the speeches of three of the main authors of the time. Special attention was paid to Dalton’s work.

Keywords:
Dalton; Gay-Lussac; Avogadro; History of Science; Chemistry teaching