O teatro de fantoches como prática significativa para contextualizar o tema solo em sala de aula.

Abstract

The soil sustains life on Earth and so far no other planet has been found with a similar substrate that meets the criteria that Science identiies as necessary to maintain life as we perceive it. Despite this, the solo theme is still little worked outside the academic and research spaces, such as in basic education. It is known that the discourse and scientiic research produced by and for specialists, through the popularization of science, reaches the different communities, but the absence of the approach on the soil still in the different spaces still constitutes one of the major challenges of Science of the Ground. Searching for the dissemination of concepts about the importance of soil in the school environment can be an important strategy to approach the knowledge and promote the formation of a ‘pedological awareness’, focused on the care with this valuable environmental resource that sustains life. Considering that active and playful methodologies contribute to the development, sensitization and improvement of students’ abilities regarding environmental issues, the objective is to relect on the relevance of puppet theater as a signiicant pedagogical strategy for the popularization of soil education in schools. The activities are developed at the UFCG, Sumé campus (PB), in schools, associations, municipal spaces and in rural communities. The Teatrinho do Solo proposal has been contributing to Soil Education, evidencing that allying the pedology to the pedagogical practice in the spaces of non-formal education as well as in the basic education results to contribute to the sensitization of the participants. KEYWORDS: Soil Education. Playful methodology. Soil theater.