Memory is humans’ ability to preserve meaningful things that happened in the past. By
making us remember events, it allows us to tread again important pathways of collective and
individual human trajectories. In this dissertation, our objective is to recollect fragments of
the memories of a teacher, Ionete da Silveira Gama, in order to understand how her life experiences influenced her music, and how did it relate to primary school contents she taught
in riverside cities in the countryside of the state of Pará. Her memories as a teacher make us
understand how important it is to use work methodologies which include the sociocultural
experiences of students to teach contents from different school subjects, from an interdisciplinary standpoint. We ask ourselves how does Ionete Gama’s music blend Amazonian cultural elements with the natural sciences in an interdisciplinary perspective, and how can it be
connected to the themes taught in Primary School? To reach this goal, we recorded fragments
of her life’s story through interviews, so as to understand her trajectory, emphasizing the
reminiscences of her childhood by the Amazonian riverside and of the years she dedicated to
teaching river dwellers. These interviews were written down and became an (auto)biographical narrative that is complimented by her images and documents. In this dissertation, we give
pride of place to six songs that refer to environmental aspects that are integral to the Amazonian culture and, based on them, we elaborated illustrated stories for children. The stories are
aimed at the primary school level of education.
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