There are many scientific discoveries and technology developments that are currently taken for granted in society as a whole, as if these had always existed. In an educational context this means that students have lost the ability to see themselves as delevopers of new technologies, assuming a role as mere users of the technologies made available by others. A contextualized appr3oach, explaining the origin of the names for the main glassware used in Chemistry classes, can make learning 3more meaningful. This approach focuses on hard work of one (or more) scientists in solving experimental problems that makes the equipment useful until the present day. Therefore we aim to humanize these creations, providing opportunities for the student to glimpse the possibility of himself contributing to the production of new equipment, techniques and knowledge through the presentation of some curious details about the invention or about the life of the scientist in question. Additionally, the images that illustrate this work, both from glassware and scientists, were made by high school students, a strategy that could also be used in classroom.
Keywords:
glassware; laboratory; teaching; experimental chemistry
