Inserção de temas transversais sobre a situação dos rios de João Pessoa em escolas públicas do ensino fundamental II como ferramenta de sensibilização ambiental

Abstract

When a river basin is fully located within an urban area, its main river becomes called an urban river, which suffers many environmental aggressions resulting from anthropic activities. As urbanization progressively increases, the river loses its natural characteristics due to the increasing volume of domestic sewage without proper treatment. Over time, the problems become more difficult to solve, generating more costs for implementation and maintenance of services. Environmental education emerges as a great tool to combat these environmental problems, with the objective of dealing with issues related to the preservation and sustainable use of its resources. Seeking solutions to environmental problems, through the awareness of individuals and the community, in order to achieve changes in attitudes and values, in favor of a balanced environment. In view of this, the present work aimed to elaborate intervention activities and verify how schools located in the city of João Pessoa have been working with their students on cross-cutting themes about the environment. We tried to address mainly the problems of urban rivers. In order to do so, volunteer students were selected from elementary school II, 7th, 8th and 9th years, with whom we granted subjects such as: watershed, springs, riparian forest, rivers, resources and impacts on water bodies. All the activities were done in a contextualized way with the local reality of the students, the selected school is close to the river Jaguaribe, which is significant for this work, since, for many years, has been suffering from pollution due to the disorderly urbanization. Thus, this project prioritized didactics that were more attractive to the students and, at the same time, more efficient, in order to work on awareness and stimulate the environmental sensibility of the students.