Como fazer animações no Powerpoint para o estudo da Física do Ensino Médio

Abstract

We live in the age of technology. What we used to see only in fiction films, today is already part of our daily life. Mobile phones, smartphones, tablets and notebooks have become indispensable in almost all professional activities, and this reality is no different in the school environment. Added to the need to use these devices, we still have students with different learning styles. As the goal of any teacher is to promote quality learning in the student, it is essential that he is always looking for new ways and alternatives of teaching in an attempt to facilitate meaningful learning in the cognitive structure of his apprentice, and a very efficient alternative that can help in understanding a content of physics, are the animations. The animations are virtual and dynamic objects that can be seen through videos or slides. This dissertation aims to describe a way of making animations so that teachers who do not yet know how to make them, especially those in Physics, can increase their classes, making them more interesting, fun and inclusive. The educational product of this dissertation corresponds to the description of a slide sequence that presents the necessary commands in order to make PowerPoint animations for building a physics class. Therefore, before showing this construction, a tutorial presenting step by step the necessary commands to make PowerPoint animations was done. To apply the educational product suggested here, four 50-minute classes were taught in a third grade class at a private school located in Recife, using the slides that were built with the theme: satellites. This work was developed in the light of David Paul Ausubel's Significant Learning Theory. In order to evaluate this educational product, a qualitative research was carried out, using only the narratives of the fifteen interviewees without the need for a graphic or statistical analysis of the result. Through the result of this research, it was observed that most students were able to better understand physical phenomena through animations and we concluded that this educational tool is indeed very useful in the teaching and learning process.