Projects techniques: an alternative to teaching and learning from the theme generator Environmental Education

Abstract

The teaching of Natural Sciences has shown it necessary the linkage of educational trends to the advantage of linking teaching with the reality of the students.  Through this approach, it seeks to know the teacher’s concepts about project techniques, their perceptions and usage of new strategies that involve a direct student presence in the construction of knowledge.   The object is to investigate to what form the use of project techniques aimed at Environmental Education linked to science education can contribute to the learning process. The sample and location used in the investigation was fifty-six students and two teachers from a grade school in the State of Para.  Questionnaires and reports were used in the collection of data. According to the investigation process, it was perceived the need for using project techniques that lead students to participate effectively in class and be able to correlate the contents with their day-to-day.  Beyond this, the students declared the experience had great success to their formation since it was possible to highlight present aspects of the teaching contexts, the justified understanding of contents as well as the formation of change agents.