Museu e teatro como práticas de educação ambiental

Abstract

This work congregates the environment practical experiences developed in Instituto Estadual Padre Caetano (Santa Maria, RS) with pupils of the third series of basic education. It was developed a work methodology that uses the theater’s dynamics as introduction to a critical analysis of the environment problems. The quantity of Museu Vicente Pallotti and the theater had been tools to show, through infantile stories, the importance of the good relation between the men and man-nature, sensitizing the children for the reality of the way where they live. In the project the Accountants of Histories had worked, that through its narrations, had stimulated the perception of the pupils, and, in such a way, the quarrel of histories in lesson was possible, what, added to the children’s creativity, resulted in a theater of puppets. It can be observed that through counted histories for the actors in the Museum, it had the possibility to sensitize the children for the inserted reality where they are and, in such a way, the theater served like instrument of information and participation and the museum like a support for the dramatic action, as playful form.