Água: do big bang ao sertão

Abstract

In today’s society, water has become seen only as a water resource and no longer as an indispensable natural asset for the survival of humans and other species. We start using it indiscriminately, without thinking about its origin or why there is an abundance of liquid water on planet Earth. We started using it carelessly and without thinking about why water scarcity is in some regions of the planet and, mainly, about the relationship between water and life. Although our planet is known as '“planet water”', we know that it is distributed in various ways and in various places, and most of this water is difficult to access or not suitable for human consumption. Thinking about it, this work proposed to develop an educational product, in the format of thematic workshop, titled “Water: from the Big Bang to the sertão”, precisely in order to arouse new questions among the most varied audiences. Thus, two classes were chosen, being one of the elementary school I, specifically, of the 5 year, of the Municipal school Thomaz Guimarães and another class of EJA, Education of Youth and Adults, of the college Teixeira de Freitas, because they are public with very different views and conceptions. Interdisciplinary thematic workshops were developed, showing that a certain theme, can and should be approached in an alternative way, encompassing the knowledge of various disciplines, which provokes curiosity and arouses the interest of the most varied audiences.