Utilização de Desenho Animado como Contexto Gerador de Atividades para o Ensino de Ciências

Cartoons are the children’s preference within the television grid. The school needs to be aware of the languages of the computerized and technological society in which it is inserted, seeking to establish with the students approaches that present points of contact with this world of images. The integration of audiovisual resources into the classroom can organize teaching activities and develop the student’s critical reading competence of the world. In this work, we present a series of activities related to Environmental Education, in particular the theme of water quality, developed from the context generated by the fourth episode of the second season of the cartoon The Simpsons (1990), which was watched by a class of the 6th year of Elementary School. Activities of summary production, discussions in small and large groups, textual research, reading of informative texts and two investigative activities on potability and pH of water were carried out. Throughout the course, students felt motivated to engage in the proposed actions. The methodology carried out allowed students to reflect on the impacts of man on the environment, providing means for them to formulate their own opinions and arguments, also helping their development in the moral and intellectual spheres.