SOIL DEGRADATION IN RONDÔNIA: PRACTICAL APPROACH FROM THE TEACHING UNIT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSoil degradation. Education.
Soils are natural bodies that present mineral and organic materials, soils are dynamic containing solid, liquid and gaseous parts they are of extreme importance for living beings. However, soil is often seen as a dirty thing and compared to something evil and disease transmitter. In this way, it may be susceptible to being degraded as a result of its inappropriate use by human beings. The increase in soil degradation is due to minimal awareness and sensitivity towards the soil, problems regarding soil conservation in most cases have been neglected by people. When the student is aware that the soil is a dynamic and useful natural resource for human beings, he must conserve it. In this sense, the objective of this chapter was to survey the prior knowledge of elementary school II students (6th to 9th grade) on the topic of soils and soil degradation in a public school. The collection was carried out with fifteen students through an online questionnaire. However, it can be concluded that, in addition to the lack of didactic and paradidactic material on this topic, the contents applied in classrooms are seen by students as a distant reality, they do not know how to apply this knowledge to the local reality, making it necessary to a more practical and experimental approach, focused on the students' daily lives.