ABSTRACT: This article describes important actions resulting from a partnership between three extension projects of Federal University of Paraná: Open University of Maturity, Green Map of Curitiba and Digital Media Applied to Education. That partnership seeks social valuing of the elderly. The method used consists of six steps: raise awareness of the sustainability issue, encouraging the elderly to participate in the learning process, as well as to reflect and to exchange experiences and sustainable practices; stimulate thinking with the use of iconographic materials; mobilize ideas with maps and icons and invite the students to map locals that refers to life quality for them; experience, beginning to discuss participants perception about the mapped locations; review the selected icons to represent positive environmental or negative aspects of the mapped areas; and perform challenges, when the participants propose behavior changes and recognize how they can exceed the proposed challenge. Besides that, the participants could discuss and realize how the project contributed to awareness process of their social environment.
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