Projeto florestinha e a trilha interpretativa: ferramentas didático-pedagógicas para espaço não formal de educação

Abstract

The Florestinha Project, of social and environmental nature, serves children in situations of social vulnerability in the school counterpart. Coordinated by the Environmental Military Police / MS, it operates in five units, two in Campo Grande - which carry out Environmental Education (EA) activities in a non-formal education space - and three in the interior of the state. In the activities of EA of the units of the capital are used diverse didactic materials, among them a contemplative trail existent in the Municipal Park Cônsul Assaf Trad. Using an adapted method that makes use of several techniques - flow diagrams and Venn diagram - known as Participative Rural Diagnosis or DRP, the main objective of the present research was the participatory construction of a set of activities and products to identify environmental problems and points of interest in the park, and thus include the local population in the intervention decision-making processes. The information obtained guided intervention actions in the systematization of utilization resulting in the transformation of a contemplative path into an interpretative one, with a theoretical and methodological contribution to foment the discussion of environmental concepts. The product resulting from this work was the elaboration of a support script for the Environmental Educator that consists of information boards installed along the trail and a field binder, with the plates in scale and complementary contents for the user of the EA non-formal space.