Vivências didáticas sobre o Filo Annelida: da vermicompostagem ao lúdico como metodologia de ensino em uma escola pública no município de Jaçanã - RN.

Abstract

The present work was based on its development, practical-methodological experiences in the teachi ng of biology through the construction of values worked in association with practices related to sustaínable development, consumerísm, environmental education and recycling of home and school organic matter, through the process of composts made by the students themselves based on Californian earthworms. The project for the sustaínable development and recycling of household and school organic waste was developed at the Teresioha Carolino de

Souza State School of Elementary and Secondary Education, in the municipality of Jaçanà- RN, aiming to encourage and bríng technical and scientific knowledge with 2nd year students

"A" and "B" (59 students) of the bigh school as a subject of recycling, sustainability and minhoculture, working the vermicompost metbodology in ao even more clear theoretical and practical way about the definitions of conscious consumption, recycling of organic matter and the contribution of the extension in the school environment. ín addüion, to sbow víable altematives when thinkíng about developing this new way to manage the natural resources of the planet in a more responsible, practical and creative way, reusing organic residues from the home and school feeding itself. The composts were made by tbe students from the reuse of empty margarine buckets and other altemative matenals, a gymkhana was also perfonned among the groups benefited by the project. and pre and post-evaluation questionnaíres were applíed at the end ofthe activities, based on experiences experienced by students in their daily lives. Throughout the project, a great interest and performance of the students ín relatioo to the contents were observed, although some themes are already known. such as the recycling of organic matter. Among the answers of the diagnostic questionnaires of the acquired conceptions, that an average of 90% of the students wbo participated in the research. understood the activities contributed to improve their knowledge. The students demonstrated with the adoption of the methodology of the composts a greater understanding of the characteristics of the Annelida Phylum, which led tbem to acquire conceptions of causes and solutions of severa! environmental problems observed in their daíly life.