Educação ambiental: pneus inservíveis e os objetivos de desenvolvimento sustentável por meio de aprendizagem baseada em projeto

Abstract

Project-Based Learning (PBL) is an active methodology that promotes educational actions that arouse students' interest in the content of the different curricular components, stimulating skills to form critical, reflective citizens, transformers of society who seek alternatives for solving problems. Real problems. Thus, this work proposes the application of PBL, associated with Environmental Education (EA) and the reuse of waste tires, with elementary school students in a public school. This research's central objective was to promote sustainable practices through a methodology that enables conscious learning. The method proposed the development of solutions for the disposal of waste tires through the steps of the ABP, under an action-research approach, using questionnaires as a data production instrument. The results demonstrate that the ABP methodology related to EA, the Sustainable Development Goals, and waste tires enabled team work, creativity, and problem solving. In addition, it promoted environmental awareness and the expansion of students' conceptions beyond the subject contents.