Bacia hidrográfica do rio Paraíba do Sul: diagnóstico socioambiental e proposta curricular de educação ambiental para a Educação Básica

Abstract

The Paraíba do Sul River Basin (BRPS) is one of the most relevant water systems in southeastern Brazil, supplying approximately 14 million people across 184 municipalities in the states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. This study presents a curricular proposal for environmental education grounded in bibliographic and documentary review, with the central objective of systematizing a socio-environmental diagnosis of the BRPS and proposing a teaching sequence adapted to the local reality for basic education teachers. The survey resulted in the cataloguing of 41 threatened fauna species and 106 Conservation Units distributed across the three states. The pedagogical proposal is based on the Web of Life dynamic, a playful tool documented in the Brazilian environmental education literature (LEDA; PEREIRA; MELLO-SILVA, 2023; BATISTA et al., 2017), here contextualized specifically for the BRPS. The theoretical framework is grounded in Ausubel's Theory of Meaningful Learning, Place-Based Education and Kolb's Experiential Learning. The proposed operational protocol includes a materials list, a step-by-step guide with estimated timings, reflection questions and structured assessment instruments.