Desenvolvimento de projeto em realidade aumentada para o ensino dos conceitos da cinética química.

Abstract

It is as a result of the development of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (DICT) that today, in the 21st century, several paths can be created in order to enable the construction of knowledge in an educational context. The means by which teaching and learning processes are applied, formerly limited to four walls in traditional and authoritarian teaching, have been acquiring more space in the digital world and this reflects the idea of having a future even more immersed in this scenario. Smartphone apps, for example, are already a reality in education and both teachers and students have been making progress in their use inside and outside the classroom, enabling mobile learning, a very relevant feature in the digital age. That said, this work aimed to develop an app in augmented reality for teaching the concepts of Chemical Kinetics in order to assist, as a digital didactic resource, in educational processes. For its development, paths were sought for a basic training in the area of programming in order to broaden the vision and know which is the best software for app development in augmented reality (AR). The software chosen for the action were Unity and Vuforia, since both allow mutually creating and associating their resources such as graphic assets, markers to be plotted using their coordinates, in addition to operations such as animation, AR association and finally creating apps. Initial tests were carried out by the software used in the work, culminating in the production of two AR experiments using graphical objects from the Unity library, serving as a starting point for building the app as a whole. The proposal for the development of the app in Augmented Reality proved to be quite interesting with regard to innovation for teaching Chemistry, such as the product acquired in this process, having the potential to work in the classroom by both teachers and students.