Irrigação e monitoramento de horta escolar como tema de iniciação à computação na educação básica

Abstract

In current times, with the constant technological advances, it becomes increasingly evident the need and the importance of knowing how to programming. Schools are led to digitally start their students increasingly early, but often this introduction is only in the context of teaching how children and young people can enjoy the technological resources, not encouraging them to be the modifiers or even the creators of such resources. This scenario is due, in the most times, to the difficulty of approaching content related to programming within the classroom, because this theme it is still seen as something very complex even by teachers and, to overcome this problem, more effective and dynamic didactic strategies are needed. In this sense, the present work intends to explore the development of a system of irrigation and monitoring of a school garden as a theme for the teaching of programming in schools of basic education, with the intention of uniting theory and practice in an activity that allows a greater dynamism in the teaching process. In order to implement the initiative, was carried out a systematic search and a methodical selection of the elements necessary to work with children and young people, since hardware resources in order to make the automation project feasible as a didactic strategy, as well as software tools that enable students to program the components of the system in question. These resources are organized and available in different formats and means, aiming at reusing them in different times and spaces.