Uma proposta de utilização de um jogo de celular como ferramenta auxiliar para o ensino de Física em tempos de pandemia

Abstract

Due to the oubreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutes were forced to adopt distance learning as a way to minimize the damage caused by the absence of a regular, in-person, scholar year on the students. Consequently, schools and universities developed strategies based on current Information Technologies. However, being made in such a hurry, several testimonials from students and teachers can be found suggesting that distance learning plans have not always been applied in the most efficient way, which helped to create anxiety on the students and difficulties in learning new topics. Therefore, it is necessary to be constantly seeking for alternative ways to make learning easier, even in a distance learning environment. Aiming at helping future teachers in this hard task, the main goal of this work is to present a new proposal for teaching classical physics, using a game (available in mobiles and consoles) as a tool to motivate students and help in learning basic concepts of cinematics. The proposal intends to stimulate the curiosity of the students in calculating the actual velocity, in the game, of a famous character in comics, cartoons, videogames, and movies, namely Sonic: The Hedgehog. With that, we believe students will be able to put in practice the concepts related to cinematics in a casual and playful way.