Do Drácula ao Batman: uma sequência didática sobre morcegos como ferramenta de educação ambiental

Abstract

Among the topics that can be discussed within the scope of Environmental Education (EE), the conservation of bats can be highlighted, especially due to the wide food niche of these animals and the relationships they establish with other beings. These animals, the only mammals with real flight capacity, are highly relevant to the dynamics of ecosystems, acting as seed disseminators, pollinators, and pest controllers. This importance, however, is still not able to protect them from the ignorance of the population, which ends up fearing them and associating them with vampires, bad luck, and the spread of diseases, thus suffering from great anthropogenic pressure. The present work had an objective. The National Curricular Common Base (BNCC), which provides for the curricular structure of basic education in the country, envisages EE as a means to achieve a sustainable society and reduce the impacts of human activity on ecosystems. However, its use in a school environment continues to be carried out in an isolated way, without favoring the interdisciplinarity foreseen in the National Curriculum Parameters (PCN). Throughout this work, an application script was produced for a didactic sequence that seeks to facilitate high school teachers' access to a new proposal for an approach to bats and environmental education. The didactic sequence was evaluated by a group of high school teachers from the public and private networks and indicated by the results the potential to fulfill its objectives in its effective application to the students.