Contribuições de um livro paradidático para as ações e os saberes ambientais de alunos do Ensino Fundamental.

Abstract

Relating social values to environmental issues has become indispensable. In addition, when proposing new forms of relationship between human beings and nature, aiming at lower environmental impacts, the valorization of environmental education becomes even more necessary. Today, environmentalists are trying to join forces to alert the world to the urgency of changing the way we relate to Earth, before the consequences of climate change become irreversible. These environmental problems are the most varied and are related to several aspects, such as economic, cultural, intellectual, aesthetic and spiritual values. One technique for working with these values from the beginning of school life is the use of environmental education strategies within teaching practices, as the use of educational subjects with environmental themes can bring the discussion of these values, in a playful way, into the classroom. Taking into account the importance of environmental education in the school environment, as well as the notoriety of using paradidics for educational purposes, the present work was carried out. In order to identify the contributions of a paradidactic book, as didactic material, to the actions and environmental knowledge of elementary school students in a school in the city of Fortaleza - CE. The research was initially exploratory and explanatory in a second moment. In addition to presenting the applied and qualitative nature, which as a consequence generated a paradidactic book. Used as an object of study was a small private school in the city of Fortaleza - CE. The target group was aimed at children between 10 and 12 years old, who are attending the first years of elementary school 2. During a 50-minute online class, the study group answered two identical and anonymous questionnaires, and then participated in a guided reading of the paradidactic. The paradigmatic “Abelardo: Um aruá da cidade” tells the story of Ana and the snail friend Abelardo, who walk together in a city park and learn about nature and the importance of taking care of the environment, which in this way, we will be taking care of. we. The book addresses the relationships of trophic webs, showing different animals and the food chains that are inserted, in addition to talking about the importance of urban parks for nature preservation. It is important that tools like this are accessible to children and that they are used during classes, as environmental education must be present in school daily life. For children who are well informed about environmental problems will be adults who are more concerned with the environment, in addition to being transmitters of environmental knowledge. After reading, the students demonstrated environmental knowledge that was added thanks to the paradidactic, being possible to compare the changes of this knowledge. In this way, the reading of the paradidactic brought contributions to the environmental knowledge and to the recognition of the environmental actions that they already carry out and for future actions that favor the environment.