MAPPING TECHNOLOGIES AND MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES APPLIED TO THE 7th YEAR OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION: BUILDING A GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH TO THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5216/signos.v4.71503Keywords:
social and environmental perception, geotechnologies, school cartography, geographic educationAbstract
This article aims to analyze the ArcGIS online mapping platform and multimedia resources as teaching methodologies for studying the local environment. Linking multimedia to geotechnologies in the teaching of Cartography has been a challenge for Geography teachers in primary education due to the urgency in understanding new ways to mediate the construction of geographical approach among the students. The Action Research methodology was employed in this study in a way that the professorresearcher and students were actively engaged in a problem-solving issue: what to do to mitigate the socio-environmental degradation of the Alcântara River located in the city of São Gonçalo/RJ. The cartographic activities presented were developed in two classes from the 7th year of Elementary School at the Raul Veiga Municipal School. The results show that, when mapping technologies are taken up in Environmental Education, students' interest in the place where they live heightens, making them feel like active subjects in building of geographic knowledge.