Cartographic games in Remote Sensing teaching: examples and discussions starting with applications in school of Rio Claro city/São Paulo, Brasil
ISBN 978-85-88783-11-9
Authors
1Florentino, R.; 2Zacharias, A.A.
1UNESP RIO CLARO Email: raianeflorentino@gmail.com
2UNESP OURINHOS Email: andrea@ourinhos.unesp.br
Abstract
Front of difficulties observed by teachers – teaching mediators in classroom – to insert the Remote Sensing containing, specially the satellite’s images, in pedagogical practice, the research group called Geotechnologies and Cartography applied to Geography (GEOCART), founded in Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP), located in Rio Claro city, São Paulo - Brasil, has been developing para-didactic materials, with cartographic games, on the perspective to give, through ludic activities, didactic alternatives which contributes to more dynamic classes, built by challenges, besides they result, overall, in the efficiency of competencies and abilities developments of cartography concepts, by the teacher, among the programmatic containing fixed to Geography discipline, in school environment. Set the challenge, this Course Conclusion work shows the application in class, the correction and adequacy of the prototype cartographic games, developed by Sarmiento (2014), about the themes aforementioned. To achieve its aim, it had been developed activities of literature review, outstanding the analyses of geography curriculum - the National Curriculum Parameters (PCNs, 1998), the São Paulo State curricular proposal (PCESP, 2008) and the Teacher's Notebook (2014) - and the books related to School Cartography, games in teaching, cognitive developing and psychology of children and School Geography. The methods and technics had based in participant research and containing analyses, to give structure to the methodology used for the developing of the research. As results, first, it had been showed some appointments about the importance of satellite's images using in Brazilian Geography curriculum, once, which even the PCNs (1998), and in PCESP (2008) it is possible to find containing about Remote sensing, geo technologies and satellite's images. Topics which leads many teachers to find difficulties to work the containing, with students in school environment, cause they have no domain of these modalities. Reality, increasingly, in which the teachers need methodological alternatives that help them in this process, for them keeping studying their students in different possible spatial readings by the cartographic documents generated by new technologies which, nowadays it is part of everyday society, for example, the satellite's images. But for that it is important that the teacher always looks for discuss and debates about questions which leads the student to comprehend the place where he lives, and in this case, the use of satellite's images can show them the reading, the analyses, the comprehension and knowledge of the space for him lived. In a second moment, it also shows the application of games elaborated in classroom, as well as their necessary adequacy. Fundamental stage to identify the problems for possible corrections, once that in the act of application is the possible time to cast the positive and negative points for then enhance the para-didactic material elaborated. And at last, it brings a proposal of a Support Teacher's Notebook, developed as an handout which is made: a) by the rules and instructions for each game; b) small instructions and hints of how to dispose the class to develop the pedagogical practices showed in the para-didactic material; c) apart from class plans indicating each containing, competency and ability to be developed each of these Satellite's images cartographic games.
Keywords
School Cartography; Cartographic games; Satellite's images