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“Mar Azul Hostel”, where this team is working, are also hosting workers involved
in the mining activity, who are also receiving the impacts of water scarcity.
To solve the problem of insufficient water supply, it is necessary to build an
aqueduct to transport treated water from one part of the city to another. As a task, the
groups needed to set up an aqueduct with available materials to transport water from
a nearby location to the hostel. The realisation of these activities aimed to stimulate
teamwork to promote debate in the search for solutions to real problems of lack of
drinking water supply.
As pointed out by Pontes (2014), the unavailability of water for ancient civilisations was a factor of geographical limitation, the overcoming of these factors is
due to collective human action, in the sense of building monumental works in the
water, as the aqueducts built by the Romans allowed the advancement of cities in
initially inhospitable places. Similarly, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, the
construction of the Carioca Aqueduct, currently a tourist spot known as “Arcos da
Lapa”, served to channel and distribute the waters of the Rio Carioca, the main source
of freshwater for the state population, being common to various points of the city
(Jantália et al. 2017), thus highlighting the importance of the PD.
2.5 Chandelier Construction
The scenario presented to the teams of this “Chandelier Construction” PD was related
to the consequences generated by the high consumption of electricity resulting from
the installation of the mining company. To minimise energy consumption and the
constant light fall, the leading hotel in Cabo Frio, RJ decided to install a huge chandelier. This preventive measure would avoid displeasing the guests, businessmen who
were in town promoting events, congresses and fairs, due to the activity of the mining
company, which in turn would bring progress and employment to the region.
As a result, teams had to devise a way to safely transport the parts that were
stored in a particular location and install the elements that make up the chandelier.
The activities developed in this PD aimed to encourage students about the challenges
of finding new solutions to old infrastructure problems, as well as encouraging teamwork and the importance of each member’s attitude in achieving the result to stimulate
the meaning of leadership and collaboration. Increasing interaction between team
members will make them increasingly prepared to meet the proposed challenges
(Bollela et al. 2014).
Step 3: Assessment
The third stage of the work aimed to assess the perceptions of students of the first
year of FFI-CF in the FTH discipline, about the activities developed in PD, through
the CLA. At the time, a video showing the performance of these students during
the application of dynamics was shown. The use of the video tool as a pedagogical resource promotes student attention, besides being a motivational factor (Vogel
et al. 2016), which, in this case, allowed to verify their performance in activities.
R. C. S. Pereira et al.
“Mar Azul Hostel”, where this team is working, are also hosting workers involved
in the mining activity, who are also receiving the impacts of water scarcity.
To solve the problem of insufficient water supply, it is necessary to build an
aqueduct to transport treated water from one part of the city to another. As a task, the
groups needed to set up an aqueduct with available materials to transport water from
a nearby location to the hostel. The realisation of these activities aimed to stimulate
teamwork to promote debate in the search for solutions to real problems of lack of
drinking water supply.
As pointed out by Pontes (2014), the unavailability of water for ancient civilisations was a factor of geographical limitation, the overcoming of these factors is
due to collective human action, in the sense of building monumental works in the
water, as the aqueducts built by the Romans allowed the advancement of cities in
initially inhospitable places. Similarly, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, the
construction of the Carioca Aqueduct, currently a tourist spot known as “Arcos da
Lapa”, served to channel and distribute the waters of the Rio Carioca, the main source
of freshwater for the state population, being common to various points of the city
(Jantália et al. 2017), thus highlighting the importance of the PD.
2.5 Chandelier Construction
The scenario presented to the teams of this “Chandelier Construction” PD was related
to the consequences generated by the high consumption of electricity resulting from
the installation of the mining company. To minimise energy consumption and the
constant light fall, the leading hotel in Cabo Frio, RJ decided to install a huge chandelier. This preventive measure would avoid displeasing the guests, businessmen who
were in town promoting events, congresses and fairs, due to the activity of the mining
company, which in turn would bring progress and employment to the region.
As a result, teams had to devise a way to safely transport the parts that were
stored in a particular location and install the elements that make up the chandelier.
The activities developed in this PD aimed to encourage students about the challenges
of finding new solutions to old infrastructure problems, as well as encouraging teamwork and the importance of each member’s attitude in achieving the result to stimulate
the meaning of leadership and collaboration. Increasing interaction between team
members will make them increasingly prepared to meet the proposed challenges
(Bollela et al. 2014).
Step 3: Assessment
The third stage of the work aimed to assess the perceptions of students of the first
year of FFI-CF in the FTH discipline, about the activities developed in PD, through
the CLA. At the time, a video showing the performance of these students during
the application of dynamics was shown. The use of the video tool as a pedagogical resource promotes student attention, besides being a motivational factor (Vogel
et al. 2016), which, in this case, allowed to verify their performance in activities.