A importância do estudo da poluição no ensino de ciências: relacionando saúde individual, coletiva e ambiental

Abstract

This work had as its theme health education within the teaching of science, through the context of pollution. Preceding the research, bibliographic studies were made on Science Education in Brazil, the Curricular Proposal for Teaching Natural Science in the State of São Paulo, the Health Education and Environmental Health. Through these theoretical references, some learning situations have been developed to contribute for the teaching and learning of students on Health through Pollution theme. Regarding the collection and analysis of data, the survey was conducted in a qualitative way, with students of the 6th year of elementary school, afternoon, in a state school in the inside of state of São Paulo. Data were collected through questionnaires, one Initial for assessing students' prior knowledge on the subject and another in the final of the learning situations, to verify the knowledge acquired. As a result, it was found that after learning situations, students were better able to prepare speeches and correlate the own Health with Environment and pollutants, this association was not previously presented, showing that the developed activities contributed to the process of teaching and learning by giving them greater meaning about the theme Health and Pollution.