A química no ensino médio através da temática solo

Abstract

Different forums, symposia and other events highlight that countries should assume their commitments to take care of our planet and then assuage or extinguish attitudes that are reducing nature’s quality. The formal education should perform its function on students’ citizenship formation, developing critical thinking, change of values, attitudes and responsibility about nature. The purpose of this study is to connect the chemistry education to questions about the theme soil, pursuing students’ perceptions and to sensitize them about the impacts and consequences of human actions. The subjects of this research are 31 first year students of a private high school at Cachoeira do Sul-RS. The thematic soil was developed inside of a didactic sequence and the instruments used in this research were creation of mental map, infographic and production of abstracts based on texts about the theme. As achieved results, it was noticed a higher motivation of the students on the creation of the mental maps and infographics with image-text when compared to abstracts’ production. The groups represented through infographics’ production the impacts mining generate on society, nature and economics at local and global levels.