FUN GEOGRAPHY - A "BOTTLED" TORNADO - CHECKING CLIMATOLOGY CONCEPTS IN BASIC EDUCATION

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.5584322428106

• Palavras-chave: Geography Teaching, School Climatology, Agenda 2030 - UN, High School

• Keywords: Geography Teaching, School Climatology, Agenda 2030 - UN, High School

• Abstract:

  The focus of this report is on verifying and deepening the basic concepts of Geographical Climatology in Basic Education, in High School classes, looking at its theoretical foundations and its applicability in contemporary times with students from the Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG), Campus I, and the Colégio Sagrado Coração de Maria, both in Belo Horizonte-MG. Content relating to local, regional and global socio-environmental problems was used, selected and structured - constituting both part of the curriculum and culture - requiring didactic action suited to the integral characteristics of the students and seeking the reworking of historically constructed and culturally arranged knowledge, in a critical view of immediate reality. Using different didactic-pedagogical tools with playfulness (construction of a tornado vortex made from a PET bottle; books by Anita Ganeri - Horrible Geography: Caught in the Climate, What a Desert Drought; Horrible Knowledge: Bad Weather -; satellite photographs, climatological/meteorological data and debates, among others), connections were made between everyday life, climate change on the planet and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs - Agenda 2030 - UN). The students' previous conceptualizations were verified and, at the end of the work, they were able to assimilate the subjects covered, with play as the driving force behind teaching and learning.