PRINCIPLES BASIC DE CARTOGRAPHY SCHOOL IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Abstract

This article discusses the importance of employment as the cartographic language teaching methodology. Its basic principles are responsible for spatial literacy of individuals who contribute to the understanding of reality, through maps, charts and / or simple representations. In this context, communicates the results of extension activities developed in a public school in the city of João Lisboa-MA, through practical activities with teachers and students from the 6th grade of elementary school. The goal was to provide different alternatives for teachers working teaching content from the cartographic language using templates of activities in LabCartE - Laboratorio de Cartografia e ensino, thus making it an autonomous and able to understand the space around student. Regarding the methodological procedures, uses the methodology of Almeida (2010), and relevant bibliographic sources, meetings and methodologies designed from the content taught in the classroom in different disciplines (Geography, Arts and Math), with the help of teachers and tools such as: measuring tape, Styrofoam, paper, colored pencils and others. It is believed that with the activities at school, both students and teachers realized the importance of Cartographic language not as a school subject, but as an important methodological tool in the construction of geographic knowledge and space. Therefore, the School Cartography must be thought of as a set of practices and must be present on the day of the teacher in the classroom to assist in the teaching and learning process.