Environmental perception as a tool for thinking about the environment in teaching geography

Abstract

This article is the result of a series of socio-environmental activities carried out at Escola Municipal José Arinaldo Alves, located in the municipality of Macaíba in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, with elementary school students. The objective of the activity was to verify the students' ability to understand the geographic space in which they were inserted and to develop in the students an understanding of their role as citizens and transforming agents of reality. The methodology used was based on bibliographic research, empirical application and the use of image as a methodological resource. The results obtained demonstrate that the use of images as a methodological resource helped students in the perception of the socio-environmental reality in which they are inserted. The students were effectively involved in the activity, which can be learned through engagement in the activity and in debates about the possibilities of preserving the environment through sustainable individual and collective practices.