Atlas escolar municipal de Rio do Fogo: instrumento didático para o estudo da linguagem cartográfica

Abstract

The present work has as its theme the study of language and cartographic literacy, with the objective of producing a Municipal School Atlas of Rio do Fogo (RN), to provide students and teachers of elementary education, subsidies for the study of the place. This problem arises from the need found in the municipality to obtain materials with theoretical and methodological input that would contribute to the development of activities in the classroom of that year, in the discipline of Geography. Since at this stage students do the study of the municipality, however the textbook addresses content from regions, outside of their reality. This study will contribute to achieve the competencies and skills proposed by the BNCC (National Common Curricular Base) and that students should have access, according to each age group, contemplating thematic units: the subject and his place in the world, forms of representation and spatial thinking . In this context, it goes through the deepening of contents, which, from the place, will be the basis for global understanding. The investigation started from bibliographic research, document analysis and observation in the teachers' classroom, from the Municipal School Maria Paiva e Silva, where the materials used by the school were identified. With this proposal we can enhance the contents studied, exploring cartography and thus contribute to the geographic study of the municipality, making a mapping of Rio do Fogo / RN, developing through cartographic literacy, the process of learning cartography as a language. As well as reasoning theoretical, bibliographic research was carried out on geographical categories such as place, daily life, municipality, city; cartographic literacy and geography teaching; among the references used we have: Almeida (1989), Almeida; Passini (2010), Callai (2005 and 2010), Cavalcanti (1998 and 2008), Costella (2012), Gomes (1996), Guerrero (2012), Kaercher (2003 and 2007), Libaneo (2002), Lima (2010) , Lopes (1991), Passini (2012), Martinelli (2009), Santos (1978), Tuan (2013). The results obtained were positive, culminating in the production of a product: Atlas Municipal Escolar de Rio do Fogo / RN, in the perspective of its use by the said municipality as well as material to be proposed for other places, showing that the Graduate Program , GEOPROF, contributes to the educational base of education professionals, who work directly in the classroom. This contribution is the final product of the professional master's degree.