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  • Inside and outside the periodic table of elements with virtual reality
    Publication . Baptista, Adriana; Azevedo, João; Mota, J. Miranda; Félix Alípio, Luís Manuel; Maia, Gil
    The Essential Learning Strategies for Physics and Chemistry Education (2018) defined by the Portuguese Ministry of Education presupposes that the "scientific literacy of the student (…) is based on the articulation between knowledge and know-how associated with the capacity of thinking critically and creatively” and assumes that students "develop competences to recognize, interpret and produce varied representations of scientific information and learning outcomes: reports, diagrams, graphs, tables, equations, models and computational simulations. Material Properties and Periodic Table (PT) are taught in Physics and Chemistry "to relate the electronic distribution of the atoms of the elements with their position in the PT" and "to locate in the PT the different elements of the groups". Scerri (2007) says that “The periodic table of the elements is a wonderful mnemonic and a tool that serves to organize the whole of chemistry.” The graphic information of PT demands the development of scientific literacy based on chemistry, semantic and technologic knowledge and helps to locate, decipher and read visual information in an isogramatic table organization, on vertical and horizontal coherent distribution of the elements. We used Virtual Reality to propose a pedagogic instrument as a challenge for acceding and deciphering information and as a possibility of expanding the information of the PT. The PT exploration follows a roadmap that, in particular, focuses on essential aspects of organization. This project started the creation of an application to raise the idea that the PT browser inhabits an innovative world where knowledge (even if complex) is accessible to everybody. The 3D models were produced in Autodesk Maya and then integrated with other systems in the Unity game engine for later publication in a Windows application. The minimum requirements to run this application require a PC with a high-end graphics card (GTX 1070 or equivalent).
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