A educação ambiental para além dos muros da escola em atividades investigativas para a conservação ambiental

Abstract

With emphasis on the subject of Research Teaching in Environmental Education, the research is linked to the Post-Graduate Program in Science Teaching (UFMS), research line in Environmental Education and was held at the Municipal School Professor Antonio Lopes Lins in the Municipality of Campo Grande MS, with the aim of developing and analyzing a didactic sequence of research and experimental activities on a natural urban area, with students from the 6th grade of a public school in Campo Grande - MS. Based on participant observation, the research was carried out in the perspective of qualitative research in education. For the accomplishment of the work with the sequence in the school was used as main reference Paulo Freire, to indicate the problematization of the contents and the dialogicity between the involved, as fundamental aspects in the production of new knowledge, following the criteria established by Freire and using the three Delizoicov's pedagogical moments for the development of activities carried out with the students. As a product of this action, a requirement of a professional master's degree, an Environmental Education Guide was produced for research activities focused on the school curriculum. The results show that it is possible to develop a didactic sequence with research activities that attend the curriculum of the 6th year of elementary school with emphasis on Environmental Education in natural area, it is still possible through mental maps to identify how students perceive the environment around them.