EXPERIMENTATION AND INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION IN PIBID: ROCKET LAUNCHING AS A PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGY IN THE SCIENCE CLUB

Abstract

This experience report describes activities carried out by a group of undergraduate teaching scholarship recipients (from the PIBID program) within the framework of a Science Club. The educational intervention, aimed at high school physics education, was based on the construction and launching of PET bottle rockets. The primary objective of this experience was to enable the pre-service teachers to practice didactic transposition and pedagogical mediation by integrating physics concepts with practical experimentation. Throughout the process, the scholarship recipients guided students in constructing prototypes and launch pads using low-cost materials. Experimental tests were conducted by varying the mass of sodium bicarbonate, allowing the future teachers to demonstrate in practice how this variable influences internal pressure and horizontal range. For the PIBID group, the experience served as a significant professional training ground, validating the effectiveness of active learning methodologies and problem-posing education. The intervention reinforced the scholarship recipients' understanding of the importance of student agency and contextualized experimentation in fostering a reflective and transformative teaching practice.