PISA, Structuring Themes and Unifying Concepts in Physics Teaching through Interactive Simulations

In Brazil, educational plans and guidelines have been consolidating large-scale assessments as potential references for High School and for initial and continuing teacher training, among them the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The student’s critical acceptance mediated by the teacher can result in cultural gains of the essential knowledge of Science and Technology as citizenship instruments. We propose the development of Hypermidiatic Study Activities through interactive simulations with PISA’s Thematic Units along with physics students in initial teacher training, aiming to investigate the question: do PISA’s thematic units in dialogical-problematizing and conceptual unifying perspectives make possible desirable changes in educational practice? Positive signs for the issue investigated suggest that connections between the concept of Translator Dialogicity and Unifying Concepts emerge from the teaching situations by teaching mediation in line with simulations or other Open Educational Resources.