Aplicação de oficinas didático-pedagógicas sobre o solo em escolas de Lagoa de Itaenga-PE

Abstract

Soil is an extremely important element for the maintenance of life on Earth, performing several ecosystem functions. However, the advanced processes of degradation that affect the soil throughout the world indicate that even though it is so necessary, it has been neglected. In this sense, soil education is fundamental for the development of critical, social and environmental awareness in society. This work aims to contribute to the teaching-learning process about soils through the application of didactic-pedagogical workshops in basic education schools in Lagoa de Itaenga - PE. Therefore, the methodology adopted was participatory research, whose approach had a qualitative nature, where the procedures were to apply a questionnaire prior to the didactic workshops with students from field schools to verify their level of understanding about the soil theme. With the results of the first questionnaire, didactic workshops on soils were planned using active methodologies to streamline the teaching-learning process, through experiments and games, to make it possible to have a relationship between theory and practice. A didactic game was developed to facilitate the understanding of soil classes in Brazil, this game aimed to make the teaching-learning process more dynamic and fun. To identify the contribution of this active methodology in the students' learning process, a post-workshop questionnaire was applied. As a result, it was observed that the participating students had a prior knowledge of soils, but that some topics such as soil degradation, formation factors and soil classes required some reinforcement. The didactic workshops had the participation and enthusiasm of the students in the face of the experiments and games. The use of active methodologies can collaborate and facilitate student learning, both in high school and elementary school, as it makes it possible to visualize in practice what is worked on in theory. There was an improvement in the percentage of students' correct answers in the post-workshops questionnaire, it is estimated that this improvement may be related to the application of didactic workshops on soil.