Um aplicativo para dispositivos móveis como ferramenta de apoio as atividades de educação ambiental realizadas com crianças no bosque da UTFPR campus Medianeira

Abstract

Population densifcation and depredation of the environment have highlighted a world scenario where there is a need for more practices of preservation and sustainable urbanization, with the maintenance and creation of green areas being one of the best indicators of quality of urban life. A green area is a forest fragment of preservation that can be used for outdoor activities such as walks, trails and the promotion of actions to encourage environmental education in the surrounding population. The forest fragment called Bosque da UTFPR, Campus Medianeira, being one of those green areas that promote actions aimed at environmental education, lacks tools to help visitors, mostly children, during the tours carried out on the trail contained in the Bosque. The popularity of mobile devices among younger generations grows exponentially around the world and this mobile technology can facilitate learning anytime and anywhere, having the potential to support the practice of environmental education in green areas through applications based on in playful and interactive aspects. This work aims to present the study and development of an application for mobile devices, which, through mobile learning stimuli, serves as a support tool for environmental education activities carried out in the green area called Bosque da UTFPR, Campus Medianeira. The application was developed using the framework Flutter and in its main resource, an immersive map in a kind of 2D game that simulates the track contained in Bosque, the Flame library. Based on the results obtained, it was noticed that it is possible to develop such a tool using the proposed technological resources and that its use during environmental education activities carried out in green places, such as the Bosque, is a viable source of easy access to information about the vegetation present there, making it easier for users to understand that environment.