Cabo de Guerra – Somando Forças : um aplicativo para o Ensino de Física

Abstract

Faced with the difficulties of students to solve Newton's Laws problems and application of Newton's Laws, and to the development and to the dissemination of information Technologies and their contributions to the educational área, decided to build an application, in the form of a digital game, based on a PhET simulation to be used concurrently with it. For this, in addition to designing, implementing and coding and publishing the application on Google Play, an action research was carried out in a state school. In hight school, classes were applied to four groups divided into two focus groups: control and intervention. The control group continued with the usual classes, while in the intervention group the PhET simulations and the game were used. In all classes, tests were applied before and after classes, to verify learning. Opinion questionnaires were also applied, two in the intervention group and one in the control group. Overall, the intervention group performed better on the learning check than the control group. But the AED proved to be more efficient for the internalization of the mathematical language by the students and the game was the most promising game for the development of quick thinking to arrive at the correct answer.