Basic concepts about electricity and magnetism in an elementary school and project-based learning

Abstract

The analysis of a project work carried out in a fourth-year course of an elementary school, generated from a massive and ex-tended electrical blackout, occurred in mid-June 2019 in Argentina is presented. The aim is to explore and understand the scien-tific concepts that were achieved during the development of the project, and the role the students had in this process. In particu-lar, the way in which the intentionality of learning, the connection with the real environment and the experience of the students concur are analyzed. A set of non-participant observations in classes and in the meetings of the teaching team were done. The work highlights the result of the co-construction of a common interest, which was a fact of the real environment of the students, which led to the entry into the classroom of complex concepts such as electric current and electromagnetic induction, thus influ-encing the intentionality of the learning and in the experiences of the situations inside and outside the classroom, by the stu-dents together with their teachers.