THE ATLAS MUNICIPAL OF RIO DO FOGO AS A DIDACTIC INSTRUMENT FOR THE STUDY OF THE CARTOGRAPHIC LANGUAGE OF THE PLACE.
Atlas, Cartographic Literacy, Geography Teaching, Place, Rio do Fogo / RN.
The present work has the proposal to produce a "Municipal Atlas", from the city of Rio do Fogo / RN, to provide students and teachers of Elementary School I, especially to the students of the 4th and 5th year, subsidy for the study of the place . It will contribute to reach the skills and abilities proposed by BNCC (National Curricular Common Base), and that students should have access, according to each age group, contemplating thematic units: the subject and his place in the world, forms of representation and thought space. In this context, the deepening of contents, which from the local, will be the basis for global understanding. In order to diagnose the materials used, we propose pedagogical activities for the geographic study of the city, performing a mapping of Rio do Fogo / RN, developing through cartographic literacy, the process of learning cartography as language. Exploring the place category in geography. As a theoretical basis, a bibliographical research was carried out on the geographical categories such as place, daily life, city; cartographic literacy and geography teaching; some references used were: Almeida (1989), Almeida; (2010), Callini (2005 and 2010), Cavalcanti (1998 and 2008), Costella (2012), Gomes (1996), Guerrero (2012), Kaercher (2003 and 2007), Libaneo , Lopes (1991), Passini (2012), Martinelli (2009), Santos (1978), Tuan (2013). These were used as bases for carrying out the bibliographic research. An interview was conducted with teachers, which made possible a diagnosis of geography teaching in the municipality, especially the use of classroom cartography and didactic resources available in the municipality. There was a first intervention of the Municipal School Maria Paiva Fagundes, with the students of the 4th and 5th year of Elementary School II, observing the level to which the students were. From this context, the "Municipal Atlas of Rio do Fogo" was proposed to serve as a subsidy in the geography classes of the referred series, as a support material for the teacher and that will be the final product of the professional master's degree in geography teaching.