VISIBILITY FOR THE NEW SECONDARY EDUCATION IN BASIC EDUCATION: USE OF THE CONCEPTS OF ATOMIC MODELS AND THEIR PURPOSE FOR LEARNING IN THE ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY AND EXACT ITINERARY

This paper proposes the theme of atomic models in high school teaching materials to explain metal forming processes and structural defects that can occur in metallic materials.This theme is presented in classes of the Engineering, Technology and Exact Formative Itinerary, which students from a private institution located in the greater Belo Horizonte region, Brazil, are free to attend.In the classes, the ideas proposed proved to be attractive and innovative, in order to give meaning to the students' learning, with regard to the application of atomic modeling knowledge.