USO DE SIMULAÇÕES VIRTUAIS INTERATIVAS NO ENSINO DE FÍSICA DAS PRIMEIRAS SÉRIES DO ENSINO MÉDIO DO IF GOIANO - CAMPUS CERES

Abstract

The fundamental challenge for Brazilian education at the time the work was carried out was adapting to the new scenario imposed by the COVID 19 pandemic, where all educational institutions were working away from home. The use of virtual simulations, in the experimental context of the discipline of physics, can reproduce, on a smaller scale, experiments with results equivalent to real ones. Virtual simulation platforms are a great strategy, even if they don't replace experiments. This study aimed to analyze the effects of simulations on the learning of technical high school students at Instituto Federal Goiano in the first years of technical courses in Informatics, Agriculture and Environment, through virtual simulations of the PhET Colorado platform. The tool has several simulations from different disciplines and, in physics, we approach the simulations of "Vector Addition", "Force and Motion" and "Skateway Energy" they are important for students to better understand the content about the physical concepts studied. The effects on learning were investigated through directed studies that, during the work, were intended to make students better absorb the content. Students were offered an investigative questionnaire at the end of the work, to talk about the experience of working with simulations in physics classes. In the answers obtained in the questionnaire, the advantages and disadvantages of the use of simulations in the students' teaching-learning process were addressed.