Uso da fotografia digital como ferramenta na educação ambiental na E.M.E.F. Santuário em Santa Cruz do Sul

Abstract

This article presents the experience of using digital photograph as a tool in the Environmental Education, developed in Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Santuário, in the city of Santa Cruz do Sul, in the region of Vale do Rio Pardo, RS. The aim is to verify the contributions of photographs as a metodological resource for sensitization and awareness of people about environmental issues. The project included 22 students who worked in the opposite shift of their school classes. During four meetings, they walked around the neighbourhood to take pictures and each participant was responsible for selecting 10 photos to think about and explain the registers. The action contributed to the perception and discussion of environmental issues from the students reality, as well the use of photography showed several advantages to the environmental education teaching, mainly to form active, critic and sensitive students in relation to the referred issues.