Oficina de tintas de solo como prática no desenvolvimento da educação de solos no ensino de geografia

Abstract

The present research addresses the teaching of Geography and soil education in a public elementary school in Teresina/PI, emphasizing the soil paint. Soil is an integrating component of the various ecosystems and its relevance for sustaining life is indisputable, due to the many ecosystem services it supports. As it is a complex and finite resource, it is urgent that its concepts are addressed in school contents, through meaningful methodologies that stimulate the students' interest. The study aimed to present the paint workshop as a possibility to approach soil education in geography classes. The methodology used in the work was exploratory with qualitative and quantitative approaches, using bibliographic research field research, where the workshop of soil paints was carried out, so that questionnaires were applied before and after the workshop in order to understand the students' opinion about the theme and the importance of soil paint as a sustainable use in public schools. The students' knowledge about the theme was initially superficial, but after the interventions with the theme and the paint workshop the methodology provided an interaction among the students and the learning of the applied content. It is concluded that the methodology used allowed greater learning and active participation of students in geography teaching and that soil education and soil paint started to have another vision for sustainable use in school practice in the public elementary school network.