Didactic proposals in aquaculture for the rural education curriculum in the Amazon region

Abstract

The adoption of innovative pedagogical practices is a trend that has generated new educational products, even in a pandemic context. Alternative teaching methodologies have provided students with new ways of learning during face-to-face, hybrid or remote teaching. The objective of this study was to produce didactic tools in aquaculture as a proposal for the Rural Education (CE) curriculum. Six aquaculture products were built, in the form of miniatures, with a view to using the curricular components of biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics in practical classes: i) aquaponics; ii) Secchi disk; iii) ichthyometer; iv) net; v) net tank and; vi) fishing net. The recommendation was to use them in an integrated, transversal, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary way in elementary school (final years). Such tools were of fundamental importance to integrate knowledge from local knowledge, where aquaculture is present in curricular components. These can be worked in an integrated way to Environmental Education (EA). Therefore, encouraging aquaculture in a playful way in rural schools means valuing the student as a subject in the process of building knowledge. In conclusion, the built tools showed positive results, presenting themselves as alternatives in the teaching-learning process.

Keywords

• teaching
• contextualized practices
• interdisciplinarity
• aquaponics.