Educação ambiental a partir de um problema local: estudando ecologia e nascentes por meio de metodologias participativas

Abstract

This article presents a pedagogical experience in the teaching of biology, with a special focus on environmental education based on a local problem, from the knowledge of the students, with the production of new knowledge from the dialogue about the environmental, socioeconomic and cultural context in which live. The experience described in this work was developed with 60 first year students of the Geralda Otoni Barbosa State School in Capelinha, MG, and had the objective of experimenting participatory methodologies aiming at the construction of scientific thinking among high school students based on an environmental problem local - the reduction of the water sources in the municipality of Capelinha, Alto Jequitinhonha - related to the daily life of the students. The application of these methodologies provided the students' understanding of the local problem, as well as sensitized them to construct hypotheses that explained it and to indicate behaviors in favor of environmental preservation.