
This work is result of a final work proposal of the discipline Strategies of Teaching I, in PhD in Teaching at University of Vale do Taquari - Univates. The strategies discussed here are Conceptual Maps and Problem Based Learning (PBL), which will be described throughout the paper. The Conceptual Maps strategy has been developed with a second-year high school class from a private school in the municipality of Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul. On the other hand, the proposal named Problem Based Learning was developed with students of Chemical Engineering, 3rd semester, of a private university, also in the municipality of Erechim. Those two proposals contemplate contents studied by those students in disciplines of Physics and General Physics C, respectively.