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Brazil is a country that does not invest enough in basic education, thus leaving a gap in the knowledge of young people studying in public schools and jeopardizing their future. One of the main ways to get into college in Brazil is through the National High School Exam (ENEM), a multiple-choice test administered by the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research. In the project: Popular Course: a preparation for ENEM, students from the Federal University of Technology-Paraná, Apucarana campus volunteered to offer online tutoring of basic content in: biology, physics, geography, history, mathematics and chemistry, from Monday to Friday, during thirteen weeks. The main objective of these virtual meetings was to help interested students enrolled in the program to prepare for ENEM, in a dynamic and freeway. The volunteers were free to use the means they considered most appropriate for each content, from online physics experiments to game-based learning platforms, which contributed positively to the learning of the students enrolled in the project and consequently to a better performance in the tests. [For the complete proceedings, see ED631021.]

The present work is the report of an intern, who through the theme: "Drugs" shows the importance of the use of didactic sequence in the teaching of chemistry for the construction of concepts. The content was applied in classes of the 3rd year of high school, in a public school, in the city of Apucarana - PR. In this sense, the main types of drugs known in daily life were contextualized, soon after the properties of organic compounds and nitrogen compounds have been addressed. The relationships established through the theme resulted in a greater interest of the students in the didactic content, since it was possible to see practical results. Some did not know much about the chemical composition of the drugs, others even had contact, or knew someone who has already used some substance. The theme is part of the day-to-day and in this way, they were able to build and develop critical thinking at the end of the process. [For the complete proceedings, see ED631021.]