AUGMENTED REALITY IN SCIENCE TEACHING, A METHODOLOGICAL OPTION IN PANDEMIC TIMES IN BRAZIL
Augmented Reality, Active Methodologies, Physics Teaching.
Currently, technology has been serving as a teaching tool, a perception that was accentuated during a worldwide pandemic, caused by the Covid-19 virus. Thus, education has been undergoing constant adaptations to meet teaching in Brazil, among them, the use of active methodologies to assist the student's need for distance from teachers, colleagues, and the school. Based on this, and assuming that the student is in social isolation and demand to be participating continuously with their training, the use of information and communication technologies in the form of virtual augmented reality (AR) application resources comes together the development of training content contained in the relevant legislation. Making use of free resources available on the world wide web, Physics contents were applied, significant learning resources and active methodologies with AR were used. The scope of this work is the teaching of Physics, specifically in the content of Optics, in which high school students from a public school in the city of Jaru, Rondônia participated. From the practical experience of the students, it was possible to glimpse, through virtual and in-person questionnaires, the development of knowledge after the use of AR. Considering that the generation of students in this age group as quoted by Marc Prenski (2001), they are 'Virtual Natives', where they will be able to easily absorb the suggested methodology. For that, action research will be carried out, with qualitative and quantitative character of the results exposed by the students.