Argumented Reality: Virtual Laboratories as an Emerging Technology for Learning the States of Matter

This work is the result of a reflection about the benefits brought by emerging technologies, particularly augmented reality (ar), which is addressed as a didactic tool for teaching the water cycle in a group of 40 ninth-grade students from the Rafael Bernal Jimenez district school in Bogota. During the implementation, the concepts related to the states of matter were studied from virtual laboratories (lv); the students were organized into groups according to the number of tablets (10) provided by the school to project the different models designed for the proper development of the topic proposed. The methodological design was carried out in the following stages: (1) documentary review on RA and lv; (2) didactic interventions in the classroom, delving deeper into the subject of the water cycle; (3) implementation of a virtual laboratory designed through the Unity platform version 5.4, consisting of four markers that projected the different states of water aggregation. Finally, the results obtained were analyzed, finding that students show great interest in the innovation of this technology, as well as a good understanding of the concepts presented.