An interdisciplinary approach about water quality as strategy for science education

Abstract

The aim of this work is to present an interdisciplinary tool for addressing chemical, biology, physics and geography contents for teaching water quality. The tool was structured in two parts: 1) input data from chemical, physical, biological, geographical, and observation parameters (require the participation of the student to obtain information about the local river); 2) storage and analysis of the data (integrate the practice and the theoretical contents). As conclusion, the following aspects were identified about the tool: simple use, accessible to any computer with minimum configuration, dispense connection to internet, can be modified according to the regional specificities of the country, can be updated with no cost, develop an interdisciplinary and global view about water pollution in the student.