Investigar uma ação pedagógica de abordagem socioambiental por meio de uma ferramenta lúdica

Abstract

This work refers to an investigation that sought to analyze the development of certain acts of environmental education, carried out together with the students of the 3rd year of the initial series, of the State School of Primary Education João Canabarro, in the city of General Câmara, RS. The initiative addressed topics such as healthy eating, hygiene, and preservation of the Planet through the use of a doll called "Zé Capricho". This tool was created to serve as an educational toy, including its structure composed of recyclable materials, which served to educate students about the importance of proper waste disposal. The application was to provide practical and didactic tasks on the subjects, allowing a direct interaction of each of the pupils with the puppet. In this way the study was to provide a playful lesson capable of showing the children of the importance of good hygienic habits, diet, and of environmental preservation, involving them to such lengths in order to make them catalysts, apt to pass on the learned knowledge. The descriptive and qualitative research about the interactions was carried out between May and August of the year 2016 by a group of 20 students, aged between 8 and 11 years, and their parents. The topics covered were greatly relevant for children's education which resulted in a good development of activities. It was possible to perceive that the children reached a criticality before the activities with the doll Zé Capricho. Personal hygiene, snack foods, and acts of degradation and preservation have become subjects debated daily in their play. There was an internalized and interdisciplinary vision in the realm of educational and environmental, so the teaching surpassed the physical barriers of the classroon reaching the families of these children.