Obra literária e ilustração, utilizando os parâmetros de qualidade das águas, como material didático para a educação ambiental

Abstract

Natural resources, more precisely soil and water, are increasingly approaching a collapse on quality. The quantity of both remains in the same proportion when compared to previous centuries, but the same cannot be said about the quality that directly reflects on all forms of life. The impacts on the environment can be of natural or anthropogenic origin, the first is insignificant when compared to the impacts caused by humans, which are responsible for accelerating the degradation processes. Thus, this work aims to develop a methodology for the creation of an environmental education book, which aims to raise social environmental awareness, especially about water. The methodology consists first of how to write and how to simultaneously draw a fictional paradidactic work in a fine line, organized in its plot, writing, illustration, relation of water resources, characters and powers, then elaborating the final product. The result is the eight-chapter work entitled Waterland and the Powers of Water in which the characters are the parameters of water quality in an exciting adventure to save water resources from pollution. The connection of a story that involves emotion, art, science and water resources demonstrates how much potential this type of work has on the human being, since the playfulness so present in electronic and printed media steals society's attention, thus, environmental education leaves its comfort zone and installs itself exactly where society's eyes are turned .