CONHECIMENTO DOS ALUNOS DO COLÉGIO ESTADUAL BEZERRA DE MENEZES SOBRE RECURSOS HÍDRICOS

Abstract

Environmental education represents a teaching area with the potential to transform the irrational use of water that predominates in the relationship between human beings and the vital liquid. The object of study of environmental education is not only found in natural science subjects, but in the relationships between human beings, between them and society, and society with nature. Brazil faces a complex problem around water, in which environmental education can play an important role in the formation of a different culture, establishing a new relationship between human beings and water, making them aware of this problem, a condition that, essential to achieve in the preservation and sustainable use of this resource. The study aimed to promote effective teaching about the consumption of water resources as well as springs and tributaries. A diagnostic analysis of the Science classes with content focused on water teaching was carried out, and then significant teaching strategies were presented through active methodologies that promote a socio-environmental and interdisciplinary approach to the topic. The study showed that educational-environmental processes promote the application of knowledge for the understanding and transformation of students' realities and contribute to the strengthening of scientific and citizen skills.