O que fazem os alunos num centro de ciência uma análise das interacções com módulos científicos participativos

The paper is focused on the procedures of 8 students of the 7thyear ofschooling (age 12-13) in their interaction with the scientific participativeexhibits of a science center the hot air balloon and the hydrogen rocket.Bernsteins theory of pedagogic discourse (1990, 1996) provided the conceptsto characterize the interaction and to analyse the influence of the characteristics of students, exhibits and social context on studentsperformance. The results show that this performance was influenced byfactors related with the family, the school and the context under analysis.However, the results also show that this is not a linear relation