Práticas pedagógicas para ensino sobre solos: aplicação à preservação ambiental

Abstract

Although the soil is an important landscape element, considered essential to the development of human activities, it is usually little known by the population, explicitly, the one that is consisted of people who deal with the soil on a daily basis, in a direct or indirect manner, like the agriculturists, as well as the one consisted of people who build their residences and buildings on the surface of the ground. The current study, applied to ten 5th grade Elementary School groups of students in three public schools in Marechal Cândido Rondon, West region of Paraná State, between the years of 2007 and 2008, shows and analyzes the results of pedagogical practices of essays on seeds germination, decomposition of different kinds of materials, and water infiltration into the soil, in order to investigate the possible progress in the understanding of soil properties and in the construction of environmental awareness. We conclude that the activities raised the understanding of the soil as a geographical landscape component and helped to apply theoretical knowledge learned in the classroom.