Birds watching as a didactic strategy in environmental education in a rural school

• Autor(a) principal: Morais, Rosiane de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Guedes, Neiva Maria Robaldo, Andrade, Luciana Paes de, Favero, Silvio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Actio (Curitiba)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/actio/article/view/12932
• topic: 7.08.04.00-1; Avifauna; Interdisciplinaridade; Ciências; Aprendizagem significativa; Educação cidadã; Birdlife. Interdisciplinarity; Sciences; Meaningful learning; Citizen education

The objective of the study was to verify if the bird watching activity is feasible in the reserve of the Municipal Agricultural School Governador Arnaldo Estevão de Figueiredo in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, and how it can be explored as a didactic strategy in Environmental Education activities. The methodological approach used was of a descriptive-exploratory character, framed in the qualitative paradigm. The activities involved the participation of 25 students enrolled in the 7th year of elementary school, in the year 2018. The observations were conducted by the trails present inside the school's Reversa (remnants of the Cerrado biome). The methodological path followed for the development of the activities was divided into five moments: first moment, presentation of the activity, second moment, bird watching, third moment, organization of the data produced, fourth moment, contextualization of the contents covered in the room and the last moment, the construction of a information board with some birds present in the reserve. During the three days of observation, 71 bird species were recorded. Bird watching is a didactic strategy that made it possible to study the environment from an integrative activity, which allowed the discussion and contextualization of different environmental content and themes, and the involvement of different curricular components. Bird watching contributes to the construction of knowledge and the development of the student's ability to act in the lived world. Bird watching is not only translated into scientific form, but also into a form of leisure and playful learning, strengthening the existing connection between the teacher and the student. There was an approximation of theoretical classes associated with practical / field classes, stimulating a reflective, investigative posture and autonomy for decision making, some of the values they developed as processes for citizen training.