Arborização urbana: um tema para o ensino de ciências

Abstract

This text has as its theme, Urban Afforestation: a theme for Science teaching. Motivated by the multiple benefits provided by this urban component in the construction of knowledge in search of an exercise in the interdisciplinary perspective, contributing to the formation of a critical person in the face of the pedagogical challenges demanded by the BNCC. The general objective was to verify the contributions of a didactic sequence based on the Three Pedagogical Moments to promote teaching and learning in the curricular component of Natural Sciences of the 8th grade. The research is qualitative and the investigation setting was a public elementary school located in the municipality of Gurinhatã-MG. To achieve the objectives, the development was divided into four stages: prior questionnaire, development of the didactic sequence, participant observation, semi-structured interview and interpretation of records and data during the application of the didactic sequence in classes. The results obtained through the pedagogical activities will be described, interpreted to evaluate the contribution of DS in the construction of students' knowledge. Compared with the results obtained by the authors cited in the theoretical basis of this work. The aim is to provide participating students with the opportunity to learn and use knowledge from science and other curricular components to recognize and identify environmental imbalances related to atmospheric thermal discomfort caused by the process of unbridled urbanization. We also aim to demonstrate, through simple experiments, the positive potential of urban afforestation to minimize these thermal imbalances in cities.