ATLAS FÍSICO DA BACIA HIDROGRÁFICA DO RIO PARDO PARA O USO ESCOLAR

Abstract

This article aims to present the organization of the physical atlas of the Pardo river’s hydrographic basin, which bathes the States of Minas Gerais (the source of the river) and Bahia (river mouth), with the purpose of school use. With this atlas we intend to soften the shortage of didactic material on the basin, in addition to making available to teachers and students of schools located within its area, information/knowledge about their place and their reality, assisting them in the teaching-learning process. As methodological procedures, we selected the physical thematic maps of the Pardo river’s basin and we characterized its physical aspects with texts in language suitable for Elementary School students. We also organized such maps in a physical atlas for school use and, finally, we suggested a playful practical activity based on the use of the hydrographic basin’s vegetation map, present in that atlas. The content of the article brings map and atlas concepts, describes and discusses the importance of an atlas, explains the mapping of a map, presents six thematic maps of the Pardo river’s hydrographic basin, accompanied by texts with their physical characterization, everything with an easy understanding to be worked in the classroom in Elementary school. Finally, it points as a suggestion the activity of expansion of the vegetation map contained in the school atlas, through the Technique of Similar Squares, including a tutorial to facilitate its application by the teachers and the students' understanding and learning