Utilização de realidade aumentada para o ensino de Estereoisomeria no Ensino Médio

Abstract

Education has always been the main driver in the development of standards for society. For this reason, teachers are under pressure to evolve and modernize their classes in a process in which technology and connectivity are always present. As “Smartphones” and “tablets” are more and more common in classrooms, one should use the possibilities that these devices allow and transform the classes. One of the allowed features is the Virtual Learning Objects (OVAs) that convey extra motivation to students. The OVA of this work is an application of visualization of molecules in Augmented Reality for the teaching of Stereoisomery in High School. Bearing in mind that one of the difficulties, or the biggest one, in the stereoisomeric content, is the visualization of the molecules outside the paper or board. This work was carried out with the help of other volunteer teachers and graduates from all regions of Brazil who remotely answered assessment forms for the development of this app. All the animations used in this work for OVA were created with free software and will be made available through a Google Drive link. After evaluating the product using electronic questionnaires, it was found that the tool has the potential to assist in the teaching-learning of stereoisomers, helping the three-dimensional visualization of the molecules and thus being better understood by the students. It is important to continue the study of augmented reality in the form of OVA not only for chemistry but also for other high school subjects.