APRENDER PARA NÃO PERDER: LIVRO EDUCATIVO SOBRE COMO EVITAR PERDAS E DESPERDÍCIO DE ALIMENTOS

Abstract

Knowledge of the main causes and consequences generated by the loss and waste of food is an essential step in finding ways to avoid them. In view of this, the present research aimed to develop an educational book on how to avoid losses and food waste, for students in the Early Years of Elementary School. This dissertation was divided into 4 chapters and in each one of them a developed article is described. Initially, a study was carried out that sought to identify educational products on loss and food waste applied to Teaching in Basic Education, in research of professional master's degrees in Brazil, in the time frame from 2011 to 2021. Then, a survey of the perception of students from the 3rd year of Elementary School about losses and food waste. Subsequently, carrying out bibliographical research of the scientific productions of the last five years, which used home gardens as a teaching tool and to improve food security. And in the last chapter, the experience report of the application of an educational product with elementary school students is described, which is an animated video about food waste. After carrying out the aforementioned studies, the educational product of this research was developed, which consists of an educational book on how to avoid loss and food waste for students in the Early Years of Elementary School. In view of the above, it was possible to achieve the objective of producing an educational book on food loss and waste, in addition to the development of 04 scientific articles and, considering the works produced, it was verified that educational actions on food loss and waste for The Early Years of Elementary School are still limited and there are still many spaces to be explored.