O uso de imagens de satélite como ferramenta para educação ambiental no ensino fundamental: um estudo sobre a mata ciliar do Rio Santa Maria em Rosário do Sul - RS

Abstract

The present research was designed in order to verify and analyze how can the information technologies assist the student in the process of environmental education and to realize the landscape with a better understanding of the importance to preserve the riparian vegetation, from the observation of satellite images since Google Earth software. The choice of this tool was based on the difficulty observed by the students to understand and relate content associated to riparian vegetation, when they appear in form of maps and figures. There was the State High School Fr Angelo Bartelle, located in the city of Rosário do Sul-RS, and a class of 8th grade as a laboratory to develop this project in order to assess how can this tool help the students to understand the importance of preserve the riparian vegetation along the riverbanks. Thus, this work does not proposes to present formulas or recipes for how to work with environmental education, but consists in a small theoretical discussion and application of a working methodology. With the application of this methodology, it's possible to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of satellite images from Google Earth software on the environmental education with students from 8th grade working at the riparian margins of the Santa Maria River. Using those satellite images, these students might realize that deforestation is much greater near the urban areas as well as understanding human action is causing serious environmental problems.