A Olimpíada de Química foi um projeto realizado pelos estudantes do Instituto Federal de Brasília - Campus Gama no segundo semestre de 2018. A proposta buscava, por meio de uma competição de conhecimentos em química, auxiliar o processo de aprendizagem e despertar o interesse dos estudantes, de escolas públicas e privadas da educação básica, pela área de química. Em uma das etapas aplicou-se um questionário aos participantes no intuito de pesquisar suas percepções pela área. Este estudo é resultado da análise dos dados levantados neste processo que permitiu estabelecer o perfil da amostra e identificar como se apresenta o interesse dos estudantes pela aprendizagem em química.
This study aims to demonstrate the perception of students of basic education about learning in the chemical curricular component. The data collection was carried out in one of the stages of the Chemistry Olympiad, an event created and developed by the undergraduate chemistry students of the Federal Institute of Brasilia, Campus Gama, in the second semester of 2018. In one of the stages of the Olympiad, questionnaire to the participants in order to obtain the data analyzed in this work, which allowed to establish the profile of the sample and to identify how the students' interest in learning in chemistry is presented. In addition to the field research, we used a bibliographical research that helped us understand the history of teaching chemistry in Brazil, as well as the demands of this area of knowledge in recent years. Among the conclusions resulting from the analysis of the data, we identified the teacher's distance from the reality of the students and the focus on the resolution of exercises to produce evidence. This demonstrates the lack of approximation of the knowledge of chemistry with daily life, resulting in the difficulty of understanding the studied subjects. Key-words: Learning; Learning in chemistry; Chemistry teaching.
