DROGAS, TEMÁTICA PARA O ENSINO DE CIÊNCIAS NA UNIDADE ESCOLAR MUNICIPAL DESEMBARGADOR SARNEY DE ARAÚJO COSTA: ESTUDO DE CASO

Abstract

Drug prevention is a formidable action that can occur alongside science education in elementary school. Students are subject to a possible start to drug use due to availability, although illegal, easy access and especially the desire to join a group and because they are exposed to a large number of users, thus, it is believed that preventive actions can be more effective than treating addicts. Thus, the present work aimed to make an approach on drugs and their consequences as tools of educational preventive clarification in the 9th grade of the Municipal School Unit Judge Sarney de Araújo Costa, an educational institution located in a periurban neighborhood of the city of Codó-MA. The research was conducted with students who attend the science discipline. The research has a qualitative nature, to perform the approach we used data collection tools from the application of survey questionnaires previously prepared based on existing literature and local reality. The questionnaires were applied to 25 students of both sexes with ages ranging from 14 to 15 years. The analysis of the results obtained allowed us to identify that the students had contact with both licit and illicit drugs, the type of contact, if anyone in the family uses or used, what the consequences of the use, which drugs they know. It is concluded that drug use prevention needs to be more debated in schools, with the participation of parents and specialists, in a contextualized and interdisciplinary approach, based on the students' previous experience and knowledge.