Um estudo diagnóstico sobre o conhecimento dos alunos da Escola Estadual Frei André da Costa em relação a precipitação pluvial.

Abstract

This work presents a diagnostic study on the knowledge of students of the State School Frei André da Costa in relation to rainfall. The same approach to understand how much knowledge these students have in relation to climate change in the city of Tefé - AM, because climate changes are changing year after year, and each year more aggressively with extreme rains and droughts, this is due to global warming that is driven by the action of greenhouse gases which in turn has its alteration through anthropic activities, bringing with it major destructions such as land and house collapse, difficulties in pluvial navigation, among other damages. With this, the objective of this research was to investigate the knowledge of students about rainfall in the daily life of the community examining if these students have an awareness of the importance of rain in the control of floods and droughts and from this compare their knowledge with scientific knowledge. To achieve these objectives, the research method consisted in the application of questionnaires that were elaborated through the 5-point Likert scale, ranging from "Totally disagree" to "Totally agree". Three statements were prepared for each dimension of knowledge, a total of five dimensions were studied. The questionnaires were applied in three high school grades, first, second and third year, in total 50 students interviewed, all on the afternoon shift. Therefore, with all the questionnaires applied, calculations of the Likert Average Ranking were performed. With this, the results revealed that students present and have a good notion about rainfall.