Água no contexto da educação ambiental: alternativas sustentáveis de captação e armazenagem

Abstract

Environmental education assumes a pedagogical approach that addresses topics essential to human development. Water as a renewable natural resource requires the development of alternatives to his capture and storage sustainably. The promotion of situations facing the teaching -learning process in a school unit, with the evaluation of the local rainfall distribution study of climate conditions and needs of storage and use of rainwater in an interdisciplinary manner, values the environmental and educational approach and assists the community in which the student is inserted, by preparing you to be a socio- environmental reality of its own transforming agent. The discussion of the issue in rural school context allows the awareness and the theoretical and practical knowledge of teachers and students, with the construction of water storage tank system through developed at schools as well as the reuse of the same irrigation in the garden school with equipment produced from the reuse of solid waste. The experiences with workshops in the classroom, educational tours in recycling, organic garden and rural family-owned mills and even the production of brochures and collective model, nurture significant for the formation of participatory, responsible and committed individuals learning about environmental issues and social. The dissemination of knowledge and actions permeate the community where the school unit and its agents are inserted, constituting the basis for the construction of new knowledge and making these essentially actors of social change with environmental focus.