Environmental education and animality: producing science with projects in elementary school

Abstract

The text discusses a project developed with 22 students of 5th year of Elementary School. The pedagogical experience was developed in 2016 in a Rio Grande do Sul school of state, in Porto Alegre - RS. It justifies the theme of the project based on previous research by the author. These, at the same time, provided the basis for creating alternatives to approaches science content in the 5th year syllabus and to account for student concerns that were evidenced in previous classes. It is based on the assumption that there is a relative gap with respect to many studies in Environmental Education that remain with anthropocentric looks, despite immense efforts to deviate from this bias, and relegate discussions about human animality to the background. It presents the activities carried out with the students, also lists strategies used and the teacher's interventions. Finally, it brings considerations by exposing and reflecting some results of the project and articulating the experience with the theory of Project Pedagogy.