Didactic models for inclusive teaching of Nuclear Physics

Abstract

Considering the absence and superficiality of Nuclear Physics teaching, prejudices, and myths about the subject in question, and scarcity of teaching materials tailored for visually impaired students, the present work brings the extension action, in the construction and application of didactic material for the teaching and scientific dissemination of nuclear energy concepts. Its differential is the tactile character of the models whose reliefs and textures were made for enabling the teaching of visually impaired students. The material followed the chronology of nuclear energy, from war purposes, presenting the nuclear fusion and nuclear fission processes and right after the different bombs created and used during the World War II and the Cold War. It ends with a thermonuclear plant model, presenting the generation of electric energy from nuclear processes. The work was applied in a scientific dissemination event that counted on the presence of some visually impaired students who interacted and learned from the elaborated material. Finally, these actions contributed to the formation of undergraduate students involved in the project.