Banca de DEFESA: VALTER BORMAN DE MEDEIROS JUNIOR

THE CAATINGA BIOME AND THE TEACHING MATERIAL: A fractal approach to elementary education

Caatinga, Teaching Geography, Photography in Teaching

The problem that guides the present study came from reflections on the teaching of Geography, in the context of the Caatinga biome, since it cannot identify in the material available for elementary school teachers, a selection and organization of significant and socially relevant content for the students. students living in the biome. The guiding question of the research is: what to do so that elementary school students are interested in a theme that is present and concrete to our senses? The general objective is to produce a booklet with images and information about the landscape of the Caatinga Biome, weaving a bridge between the information that we have about the “spot”, considered a Fractal, and what the theoretical concepts say about the general context of the biome, so that the knowledge produced makes it possible to expand knowledge that contributes to the understanding and sustainable preservation of the Caatinga Biome. As for the specific objectives, there are: 1) Identify the diversity of species that inhabit this small patch of the Caatinga Biome; 2) Investigate which elements of the place attract so many species; 3) Register, through photographs, the landscape and the species of fauna and flora found in the spatial clipping locus of the research; 4) Collect photographs to describe the landscape; 5) Contribute to the increase of research sources on the subject addressed so that students can enrich their knowledge about the Caatinga. The theoretical-methodological paths are: bibliographical research that will have as conceptual references, with terms such as sertão, place, landscape, flora and fauna, from the discussions of Tricart (1982), Dardel, (1990), Relph, (1979)Santos and Chiapeti (2011) and the exploratory visit to the research locus to capture photographs, which will compose the imagery research, which associated with the bibliographic and documentary, will support the research object and for the production of the didactic material that is the booklet about the local fauna and flora species. Currently, all photographic collections were carried out, forming the research image bank.