O uso do PhET em aulas de física

Abstract

Computing is one of the tools that, when used in the teaching and learning process, has presented itself as a very valuable instrument, since the infinity of resources it offers allows for innovating the methodology for approaching the same topic for countless times and in different ways. In this sense, this work made use of the Physics Education Technology - PhET digital platform to develop learning content that motivated a specific group of students who had below average grades in their report cards in the Physics subject. The activities of this work were carried out in the classroom environment, directly involving 56 students enrolled in any of the three grades of high school. The selected students answered a questionnaire about Faraday's law and virtually reproduced the programmed experiment. The results obtained were analyzed based on the descriptive quantitative analysis technique. This study concluded that the use of the PhET virtual simulator in teaching Faraday's law proved to be effective in the learning process. However, it was observed that even with the use of the platform in the development of activities, the traditional methodology is still the most accepted by students according to the evaluation of their responses, since the interest in digital resources in teaching has increased to just over one third of the participants