Exploration of simulators, images and animations as auxiliary tool for teaching/learning of optics

Abstract

In this article we report the development and use of a CD of optics for high-school teaching, covering all topics for this level. The material contains didactic texts in HTML language, 77 animations and 64 images generated by ourselves, as well as 13 simulators (Java Applets) available in the internet. We comment about the application and reception of the Hypermedia by a group of 40 high school seniors.

physics teaching; optics teaching; new technologies; hypermedia