Percepção Ambiental e desenvolvimento Scratch: uso da água no pulsar do Rio Juruá – Eirunepé – Amazonas

Abstract

This dissertation is based on the assumption that the use of educational Software Scratch can contribute to the teaching of Environmental Sciences, providing the research subjects with a meaningful learning about the environment in which they live. It aims at the construction of dynamic animations on the use of water with the use of Scratch. In order to reach the proposed objectives of the research the environmental perception of the subjects on the use of water in the pulsar of the Juruá River was studied, as well as the educational Software Scratch and its possibilities for the development of computational thinking. The study was carried out in a public school in the interior of the state of Amazonas, with as participants the teacher-researcher and twenty-four students. The foundation of the work was the Systemic Complexity Approach. Faced with the need to describe and explain the social phenomenon in its context, with use of the Case Study as a methodological procedure, allows the use of multiple sources to explore the phenomenon in depth. The students were encouraged to develop dynamic animations with the use of Scratch and were studied to verify if the tool provides a learning of the contents related to Environmental Sciences, specifically the water theme. For analysis, descriptive statistics were performed, after feeding the database, with records of the interviews, questionnaire and data recorded in the field diary. The research shows that Scratch can be an important aid to the curricular work, due to its motivational, challenging and constructive character, and can be inserted as a pedagogical proposal in basic education schools.