Image as a didactic resource for the education of geography in basic education

Abstract

In front of the need to remove the teachingofGeography from the field of abstraction attributed by most students, the didactic resources emerge inthe teaching-learning process context of this discipline as being great facilitators of the geographic contents approach. Among the image being the maindidactic resources used in the educational space, it's because it provides a range of possibilities that can be explored in order to give greater significance in the geographic knowledge construction. Given the above, this paper aims to present the experience lived during the II Supervised Internship realization from the Geography Majoring Degree at Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, which was made an approach using the image as a didactic resource. To this end, were identified the main desires of the students about the subject and the execution of an intervention plan considering the main difficulties pointed. Understanding the difficulties was of great importance because it allowed rethinking the methodologies aiming to make the classes more dynamic and attractive. Was developed the regency in anII Elementary School class of a public school in the city ofEsperança-PB and during the period was sought to build significant knowledge and close to the students' reality. As a result of the approach of contentthrough images, we can highlight the disciplinegrowing interest, increase participation and greater advances in understanding the proposed content, what has evidenced the constant need to reevaluate the developed practices aiming for less abstract and morepleasurable learning