Uso de mapas mentais como recurso didático no ensino de cartografia em geografia do 6º ano da Escola Estadual Helenise Walmira Dias dos Santos, Macapá-AP

Abstract

The teaching of Geography has a function that transcends, meeting with the new historical and scientific times of the country, and it is important to reposition the teaching of this discipline in the curriculum of Elementary School II, based on this assumption, it was necessary to know how the process of teaching cartography to students of the 6th year of elementary school of the Helenise Walmira Dias dos Santos State School in the municipality of Macapá occurs. For this, it was necessary initially to identify and understand the process of teaching cartography in this educational institution, to later propose ways to improve the teaching. For this, it was used the methodology of bibliographic survey through qualitative and descriptive analysis, where school cartography was the main theme addressed in order to support this case study. Then, the activities were applied to the students, as a way to assess their level of understanding with the subject studied, which were divided into: classroom design; location and orientation from the thematic map of where the school is located. A4 paper, pencils and a box of coloured pencils were distributed for the classroom drawings. Where it was possible to observe that most of the students' maps were made in the horizontal view. The houses, references and other elements of the landscape were presented in a frontal perspective, drawing the façade of the buildings, which implies a failure in the cartographic literacy of the students, which will impair the reading of more traditional maps (analysis / location / correlation) in the future, considering that the maps are conventionally produced from the vertical perspective