GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PATOS
Keywords: Geographic Atlas. School Cartography. School Geography. Spatial Thinking. Geographic reasoning.
In the teaching-learning process, with regard to School Geography, there is a diversity of didactic material designed to promote the teaching of Geography in the school space. The production of books in Brazil appears as the main didactic-pedagogical resource, however made available by the Ministry of Education (MEC) through the National Didactic Book Plan (PNLD) aimed at teaching Geography in public schools, where they often do not bring a perspective of a regional approach, much less a local one. Based on this reality, this work will make available the production of a Geographic Atlas, which appears as a central product of this research, which walks in the perspective of discussing the geographical category “Place”. The construction of the Geographic Atlas of Socioenvironmental Vulnerability of the Municipality of Patos / PB, aims to meet the curricular demands of the 7th grade of Elementary School, which will have as an assumption, analyze the elements that will qualify and assist in the construction of knowledge and geographical reasoning . Given this, it is worth mentioning that the field of research in Geography refers to the geographical space, since this space is related to the different cartographic scales, it is evident the importance of bringing an approach and the relationships of the different levels that goes from local, regional, national and global. The methodological procedures of this research are of a qualitative nature and were carried out through documentary, bibliographic review, preparation and application of classes in two schools, one of which is elementary school and the other of high school in the city of Patos / PB, which aim to experience the functionality of the didactic use of the Geographic Atlas with the students in the classroom. Throughout the research, we tried to demonstrate the Geographic Atlas as a resource capable of building geographic reasoning and spatial thinking in a complex way to the space experienced by the subjects, with the perspective of providing educational training material that can help and respond to the purposes of School Geography in the municipality of Patos / PB.