Vídeo Curupira: uma proposta de mediação didático-pedagógica para ensino de Educação Ambiental

Abstract

Implementing environmental education in schools has proved to be an exhaustive task. There are great difficulties in awareness-raising and training activities, in the implementation of activities and projects, and especially in the maintenance and continuity of existing ones. The study of the environmental perception of the community with which one intends to work can indicate characteristics of the group, leading the planners and educators to their knowledge and to the development of programs defined according to local identity, their values, their way of seeing, interpreting and relate to the environment. The present work has as main objective to investigate the results of the pedagogical use of environmental themes and the video documentary CURUPIRA I - popularization of the scientific knowledge on ecology and conservation of the Amazonian fauna as a tool of a didactic sequence in the teaching of biology, having as a guiding thread the National Curricular Parameters. The method selected for the project was research-action, it is a type of empirical based social research that is conceived and carried out in close association with an action or with the resolution of a collective problem, In the quest to deepen the study theme did necessary to use bibliographic research and field research. The research was carried out in the municipality of Nova Olinda do Norte (AM), at the State School Professor José Paula de Sá, with the target audience being the students of the biology discipline, the second high school series, afternoon shift. The data collected through the questionnaires applied before and after the presentation of the didactic sequence were analyzed with qualitative and quantitative basis to answer the research objectives. As a final object, a didactic sequence model was proposed and could be used later by educators in their environmental education activities. The result of the study indicated that the didactic sequence performed as a methodological tool allowed the achievement of the educational objectives to which they were proposed, such as the application and understanding of the knowledge observed in the questionnaire responses. Participating students indicated in general a satisfactory degree of understanding about the themes present in the research. The use of educational media, such as video documentary, as well as the use of slides with environmental concepts, should be part of the strategic framework of educators, in the planning and application of environmental education to their students. Mission is becoming difficult, but when carried out in an organized and precise way, it brings comfort when observing the evolution in the results, and the awareness that to make the next one think about the environment, to value the environment, to take care of the environment, is to become part of this environment, dependent on its direct or indirect wealth, and an integral part in making decisions about the environment in which it lives.