The article reflects about the educational research activity developed at the curriculum component - Research in the Teaching of Chemistry II -, one of the components of introduction to the educational research in the course of Chemistry at UNIJUÍ. Undergraduates, through a questionnaire answered by students of Chemistry and by students from the third year of high school, identified different levels of meaning involving fundamental scientific concepts in the understanding of chemical transformations and their thermal effects. The responses were grouped according to their similarity, resulting in the construction of four categories of analysis for both groups, were also consulted books of chemistry for high school and university teaching that address the investigated subject. Based on the report of research developed by undergraduates, it is concluded that the initiation to the educational research can be performed as a curricular activity in order to enhance the education of the teacher also as researcher of his practice.
Research in education; Chemistry education; Teaching; Higher education; UNIJUÍ
