EXPERIÊNCIAS DIDÁTICAS NO ENSINO PRÁTICO DO GEOPROCESSAMENTO

This paper shows practical aspects of the teaching GeographicInformation System (GIS) in the Forest Enginnering Course at the UNICENTRO- Campus Irati, Parana State.The academic subject has been accepted very wellby the students, mainly due practical applications . Forty percent of the subjectis dedicated to practical classes, being either demonstrations classes or activitiesin computer laboratory. The demonstrations classes are toward practical forestrycases and in the laboratory classes the students carrying out activities usingreal collected data. The mentioned steps has provided better understandingfor the students about the meaning and importance of GIS in forestry. Thegotten results have been shown in the diverse applications that some pupilshave carried through in others discipline of the course, beyond works of basicresearch of scientific initiation.