One Day at the Botanical Garden

This work aims at presenting the initial development of a mobile game supported by the ARIS platform, to be located at the Botanical Garden, Porto Alegre / Brazil. The main assumption of this work is that the hybrid character of location-based media can increase the learning power of educational projects at the Botanical Garden’s context. The game is proposed to be played by 9-12 year-old children that visit the garden. Some game developing choices and difficulties in planning the game are presented. The research group consists of researchers of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and the Zoo botanic Estate Foundation.