Promoting the environmental awareness in portuguese classes: application of the PPP methodology in the thematic of the water / Promovendo a conscientização ambiental em aulas de português : aplicação da metodologia "PPP" na temática da água

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

29/05/2009

RESUMO

The society environment can be understood as a center reorganizing existing conflicts. Being the closest space of acting for students, the school environment is decisive in the learning process of social values. It is believed that in Portuguese classes, where several kinds of texts are studied, the approach to the environmental theme is opportune and its adequacy to the context is plausible. This project has aimed the development of a methodological proposal which provokes and guides the activities, as a pedagogical school project of the Portuguese subject and part of the process of Environmental Education. It believes that the preservation of the society environment depends on the involvement of everybody. The necessity to establish the practice of the environment education in the school was the starting point for this work, independently from which subject is taught. The study of the environment will have more conditions to occur as it promotes a reorganization of contents linked to the social life. It is understood that this generalization of environment practices will only be possible if inserted in the context of social values, even if it relates to the changes of daily habits. Water, in its current approach, the scarcity, was studied in the questioning regarding to the environmental degradation. The uncontrolled consumption, which results in the misuse and consequent sum of garbage, was studied as well. The methodology Planning, Process and Product (PPP) was applied, mainly for evaluating each step continuously, through the formative evaluation, accepting that the stages vary in accordance with the context worked and for ending up the verification of the project in a general manner, with the combined evaluation. With an initial research, using a questionnaire with simple questions, on environment and water, it was perceived that there was a lack of information in some aspects, as for example, the origin of the water that supplies the city, the existing rivers and the pollutants of these rivers. From this initial research some activities such as reports, interpretation of informative texts and advertising, were worked on; as well as visits to public areas with environmental preservation. The same questionnaire was applied at the end of the activities and then it was noticed that students had acquired knowledge about subjects which were unknown by them before. A review of cases was made eight months after the application of this project. According to the answers, the students had conserved the information. Portuguese was used as a vehicle to carry the information about environment and water, in spite of accomplishing the recommended content to the eighth grade. The students got involved in the problem of water shortage; they analyzed the visited places and questioned the procedures as wrong or right. The results had been satisfactory enough.

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environmental education preservação ambiental educação ambiental metodos e tecnicas de ensino environmental preservation

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