Jogo de realidade alternada curto (short arg) na temática café

Abstract

This paper reports the experience of applying a short alternate reality educational game, SHORT ARG, on the theme of coffee, to work on Chemistry content that allowed the approach with Biology and History, for a class of second-year high school students. This game modality uses enigmatic characteristics combining digital elements with the real world in a narrative, a story with a beginning, middle and end, in which the students themselves are the players. The game was worked on in groups, a total of seven, applied in two formats: online and in person, and lasted 12 days, in which eight challenges were executed during the narrative. In the characterization of an educational game, SHORT ARG presented four categories, indicated by the educational and playful functions of the game. The Educational Functions: Formative and Evaluative, which are related to the ability of an ARG to act as a diagnostic assessment strategy of the students' chemical knowledge; and the Playful Functions: Immersive and Moral, refer to the playful aspect of an ARG, providing pleasure and fun to students. The SHORT ARG on the coffee theme is a potential aid in the teaching and learning process for teaching chemistry, in which it enabled collaborative learning, provoked engagement and motivation in students and made the teaching-learning process meaningful.