ANALYSIS OF TEACHING ABOUT SOILS IN GEOGRAPHY IN STATE SCHOOLS OF FRANCISCO BELTRÃO/PARANÁ

The Soils content is a subject that is little considered in basic documents used for the elaboration of schoolbooks. As a result, the study of this natural resource is not always presented with its due comprehensiveness to the students in the classroom. Thus, this article aims to highlight how Soils studies and their conservation have been developed in the school, both in Elementary and High School, in Geography subject. To this end, questionnaires were used with Geography teachers from State Schools in the town of Francisco Beltrão-PR, to analyze the methodologies used to work with the Soils theme, and questionnaires with 6th grade and 1st grade High School students, to analyze the teaching learning process. Analyses of documents such as PCN (2003) and BNCC (2017) were conducted to understand the formulation process of schoolbooks and how the Soils content is present in schoolbooks. Also, analysis of the schoolbooks of the elementary and high school years was conducted to observe the arrangement of the content under study. This information was useful to understand the teaching-learning process with students and teachers and the importance of this resource as content in the schoolbooks.