Proceedings ifte-2020, 0013-0026 doi: 10. 3897/ap e0013

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the principle of the internal combustion engine’s operation during the lesson, the teacher demonstrates the 
model of the device. At home repeating material on an interactive AR-map, the pupil thanks to the 
technology of augmented reality will be able to see the engine model and the principle of its operation, 
which will help the pupil to understand in details the operation of the technical device. 
The pupil’s work with “Interactive AR-map for fixing lesson’s material with the teacher” is carried out 
according to the following algorithm: to remember the new material told at the lesson by the teacher; read 
the material in the textbook; retell textbook material using an AR-map; tell material without using an AR-
map. 
The pupil’s homework can be divided into the following types: working with educational literature; 
exercises execution; making observations or performing an experiment; performance of a creative research 
assignment. 
“Interactive AR-map for homework with the educational literature” includes questions that need to be 
answered by reading certain pages of the manual or textbook. The AR-map can also contain training 
exercises that will help pupils analyze the material they read, organize, summarize and consolidate it. For 
teacher, organizing a homework of this kind, is necessary to think through the difficult moments of the text 
and select small videos for them, which will help to prevent the difficulties and help pupils complete the 
task successfully. 
To teach pupils to execute exercises on their own is not easy. Indeed, the success of solving a physical 
exercise lies not only in understanding its physical content, but also in the ability to use the mathematical 
apparatus. It is difficult for pupils to imagine how the puck moves along a plane inclined at an angle to the 
horizontal if it had a non-horizontally directed initial speed, or where the action of forces is directed on a 
rod moving along an inclined plane with a current in a magnetic field, etc. Therefore, voluminous “live” 
drawings, attached using augmented reality technology to the “Interactive AR-map for homework”, can 
help a pupil to visualize the exercise condition.
Most physics textbooks include reading materials describing curious historical facts, interesting 
phenomena, and fascinating experiments in order to interest by the subject and prepare pupils for reading 
non-fiction. Illustrations to the text are not always demonstrative. The use of AR-technology allows to 
eliminate this drawback, which will increase the interest and motivation of pupils.
Working with texts in the seventh and eighth grades is a propaedeutic of completing tasks for 
understanding texts with physical content that pupils will meet when passing the exam in the ninth grade. 

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Irina M. Agibova, Tatyana А. Kulikova, Natalya А. Poddubnaya, Olga V. Fedina / Proceedings IFTE-2020 
To complete them, you need to read the text, understand it, and then execute the exercise. Typically, in such 
exercises, a diagram of the experimental setup is presented, a description of the experiment (for example, 
Hilbert’s experiment with a terella) or physical phenomenon (for example, the appearance of the lower and 
upper mirages) is given. For teaching how to execute this kind of exercises, technology augmented reality 
can be used, which will cause a desire to read physical texts in the future and will contribute to executing 
exercises of understanding a text with physical content. 
The particular interest is the organization of personal observations or experiments conducted by pupils at 
home. Such activities contribute to: increasing interest to a subject; the formation of such character traits as 
curiosity and observation; development of cognitive abilities; teaching methods of scientific knowledge; the 
formation of the ability to consciously absorb knowledge; the development of the need for self-education; 
preparation for scientific activity. 
Processes, observation of phenomena or conducting experiments at home should be carried out 
purposefully and organized. The teacher needs to highlight moments that can cause difficulties and think 
about how to help pupils overcome them. In this case, the homework of the pupils will be successful and 
productive. “Interactive AR-map for personal observations and experiments” will help the pupil formulate 
the goals and objectives of the research, determine the stages of the work. The questions or exercises 
contained in the map will allow the pupil to analyze, make generalization, and formulate conclusions. 
Augmented reality technology will turn the process of doing homework from routine into an exciting 
activity.
Let us give an example of a fragment of “Interactive AR-map for personal observation and 
experimentation” for eighth grade pupils on the topic “Electrification of bodies in contact. Interaction of 
charged bodies” (Fig. 1).
The map contains exercises of different difficulty levels: basic (first, second, third) and advanced (fourth). 
While completing task 1, to view the experience demo, the pupil should point the smartphone or tablet at 
the AR-task icon. To homework, such as an observation of the phenomenon, was targeted, pupils are 
invited to highlight the features of electrified bodies and draw a conclusion. Observation of the 
phenomenon will prepare the pupil for the second and third tasks, in which it is necessary to independently 
conduct experiments on electrification. 
Eighth grade pupils are taking their first steps in experimental physics. It is necessary to teach them to set 
up experiments and formulate conclusions. In case of difficulty, the pupil can view the theoretical material 
by activating the AR-help icon. 

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