Cartografia escolar: produção de mapas e análise de dados cartográficos do município de Santa Helena-PB.

Abstract

School cartography conveys academic and school knowledge, which in its constant formation/updating process, investigates problematic issues, updates concepts and proposes didactic referrals of contents, however, it is necessary to build a set of reflections that highlight the possibilities of pedagogical practices in search for its meaning, observing the way of being of society, school and Geography teaching in the construction of knowledge. In this sense, one of the issues to be considered is the preparation of didactic materials that help teachers to work with different graphic languages as an integral part of their pedagogical work. Based on these questions, the objective of this work was to provide theoretical and methodological support to elementary school (final years) and high school teachers to work with cartographic representations of the municipality of Santa Helena-PB, and enable them to use the atlas school in the classroom. For this, a municipal school atlas was prepared, with 11 chapters, the methodology developed was based on a qualitative approach, with an exploratory, bibliographic and documental character, dedicated to the study of the place. Georeferenced data from shapefile files, statistical data from IBGE, official municipal documents, QGIS 3.22.4 software and spreadsheets were used to create graphs and charts, as well as record photographs. The result has theoretical-methodological material, taking into account History, Formation and Location of Santa Helena-PB; 2. Urban and Rural Characterization of Santa Helena-PB; 3. Natural frame; 4. Population and Society; 5. Districts of Santa Helena-PB; 6. Land use and occupation; 7. Commerce and services; 8. Health; 9. Education; 10. Culture; 11. Leisure and sport. In this way, the Atlas constitutes an important and enriching instrument for the teacher's work in the classroom, it represents a didactic resource with cartographic, statistical and geographic data of the municipality, contributing to the teaching-learning of students from a local approach.