Remote Strategies of Activities Based on Maker Culture in Covid-19 Pandemic Times

Abstract: This paper presents an experience report about 2 remote strategies based on the active learning methodology known as Maker Culture, in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic scenario. Also, this paper brings some reflections on these experiments, which serve for interested teachers to apply or not (depending on the decision of each teacher) the Maker Culture in their educational context within the most varied disciplines that they can teach, even remotely. To this end, this work uses as a basis the concepts of Maker Culture, also known as hands-on education, developing ideas to be used remotely. Thus, the 2 approaches presented are: online workshop of 3D printer and portable meteorological (or weather) station with Arduino for teaching Physics. The results of tests applied in remote classes are presented. This work also discusses how items from Maker Culture, such as 3D printer and Arduino, can facilitate the teaching of contents that aggregate content to the school curriculum.

Key words: maker culture, remote strategies, Covid-19 pandemic