O uso de realidade aumentada no desenvolvimento de um material didático para ensino de métodos contraceptivos no ensino médio

Abstract

The Unified National Health System offers eight options for contraceptive methods. These methods are often worked on in Biology classes associated with reproductive tract physiology, but, unfortunately, there is a difficulty in getting students to take ownership of the content given in class and use it in everyday life. Brazilian Ministry of Health data of 2015 point to a drop in the number of pregnant adolescents in Brazil, but the number of girls under 19 participating in birth statistics in the country remains high, making clear the need for public policies aimed at reducing this index. Making educational videos about these methods and using software to display them in Augmented Reality (AR), technology capable of superimposing virtual objects on a real scenario, can be a good tool in teaching and publicizing this theme, helping the school in health promotion. The methodology for creating the product was preceded by the analysis of textbooks of the National Program of Didactics Books (PNLD) about contraceptive methods and a survey of how contraceptive methods are offered in the National Unified Health System (SUS). The developed product was an application, ContraceptivosRA, which is able to display explanatory videos of contraceptive methods offered by SUS when the smartphone is pointed at a poster containing markers that make the connection between the virtual and the real. The videos were made on Animaker an online video authoring platform. To run the augmented reality application, the computer program Unity was used with the aid of a software development kit (SDK), EasyAR. The validation of the didactic material was made with a sample of 26 high school biology teachers from public schools. In the opinion of the teachers participating in the research, the product have showed relevance to the teaching of biology, being in accordance with the curricular proposal of the discipline and contributing as another pedagogical instrument for working contraceptive methods