Environmental Awareness Practices in Children Education using the Amazon Turtle (Podocnemis expansa)

• Main Author: Silva, Fabrícia Souza da
• Publication Date: 2023
• Other Authors: Terán, Augusto Fachín, Morhy, Priscila Eduarda Dessimoni, Aguiar, Lívia Amanda de Andrade
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Educitec
• Download full: https://sistemascmc.ifam.edu.br/educitec/index.php/educitec/article/view/2183
• topic: Sensibilização Ambiental; Tartaruga-da-Amazônia; Ensino Infantil; Environmental Awareness; Children Education; Amazon Turtle; Conciencia Ambiental; Educación Infantil.; Tortuga amazónica

Developing environmental awareness practices in the education of young students is essential to awaken their interest in environmental issues. The objective of the proposal presented was to raise awareness among young children in kindergarten about the importance of the Amazon Turtle (Podocnemis expansa) for the Amazonian aquatic ecosystem. The research presents a qualitative, participant approach, having as locus a Municipal Center for Early Childhood Education located in the North Zone of Manaus and the Center for Studies of the Turtles of the Amazon (CEQUA). The participating subjects were 20 (twenty) children from the second period of Early Childhood Education. The technique used to produce the data was the didactic sequence, structured in environmental awareness workshops. The data were interpreted and analyzed using Bardin's Content Analysis. The results show that working on environmental awareness in the early grades of basic education is essential to form an ecological awareness in children, enabling changes in habits and attitudes.Through the didactic sequence, we managed to raise the children's awareness about the importance of the Amazon Turtle, as well as to warn about other environmental problems, such as river pollution, poaching and the threat of extinction of other species of Amazonian fauna.