Let's take care of Brazil - the challenge of environmental education in series final elementary school

• Autor(a) principal: Cadoná, Eliana Aparecida
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Sippert, Luciane, Guerra, Divanilde, Bohrer, Robson Evaldo Gehlen, Lanzanova, Mastrângello Enivar
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Monografias Ambientais
• DOI: 10.5902/2236130818814
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/remoa/article/view/18814
• topic: Basic education; Pollution; Natural resources; Educação básica; Poluição; Recursos naturais

Environmental education is at present the major challenge of schools and their teachers, because every day numerous discussions arise around this issue. The need is noticeable this insertion, as indeed the climate and environmental changes we are witnessing is attributed almost exclusively to human action. This study aims to evaluate and present an account of work experience undertaken with a group of students of final grades of elementary school about the environmentally correct problems, using as a tool, the teaching material available by federal government. This is an action research. Preliminary results show some changes in relation to the use of water with greater rationality, the need to promote the interest of parents about the irrational use of pesticides and the use of water for the placement of these products on the need for maintenance and expansion of forests. It can be seen therefore that this material has been significant for the initiation of environmental education, has provided great moments of interaction and reflection, and present different ways to teach the proposed content, making, students are the active subjects the construction of their learning.