O futuro provável e o ideal para o Rio Rolante

Abstract

The present study aimed to propose a strategy for the environmental education to Rolante river stressing its importance as an hydric resource to the present and also to the future time with the fifth grade middle school students from Pastor Ivo Souza Adventist School, located at Rolante city-RS, to investigate the changes suffered by Rolante river during the last 20 years, verify the ribeirinha population relationship with the Rolante river as well as identify the environmental education actions to the ribei-rinha community. The methodology of the study consisted in three steps. In the first proceeded the analysis of the programmatic content of the science subject school as the National Curricular Parameters according to the water content on the Earth Planet, Water and Life, Water’s pollution and the aquatic environments’ con-servation. In the second step occurred the educational outputs to the Rolante riv-er margin to observe the changes suffered by the river in the last recent years by an-thopogenic actions. In the third stage the students knew the city’s history related to the Rolante river since the beginning of the colonization until the present time through library researches and lectures. The investigation took place from question-naires, with the ribeirinha community to the adjacent areas of school, interviewing the area residents and reporting the most striking facts connected to the river. In the last step, we promoted a Cultural Gallery, with the exhibition of materials which was pre-senting alternatives and actions to the Rolante river recovery with the participation of the river ribeirinha and the school communities. According to the data the fifth grade students realized the historical process of the river, the lifestyle and the different ways of its uses along the twenty years. Recognizing the environmental impacts observed by its current stage of conservation until to the present moment. This educational activity has contributed to the ethical attitudes formation and condi-tions so that the learner may act with greater sensitivity with the nature and in their attitudes towards the environmental problems for which stu-dents will become conscious citizens and adopt beneficial postures, thus ensur-ing the survival of the living beings and a better and dignified life quality to the cur-rent and future generations.