A arborização como instrumento de educação ambiental no ensino fundamental

Abstract

This study aimed to instigate the students of the elementary school 3rd stage for the feeling of part belong to the environment and for the responsibility and care with the same. The activities were developed in the Escola Estadual de Ensino Fundamental João Carlini, Ajuricaba, RS, searching to identify the environment conceptions that the students already possessed and lead to the reflection that the human being and their different conviviality means, as house and school, they are also part of the environment. After this dialogue, the students were instigated to identify how they could use the vegetation to preserve and to take care of these environments. As the focus of the work was the school environment and as way to value the vegetation already existent in the school, the students mapped and identified the different arboreal species existent in the school patio and, at the same time, they verified spaces for the planting of other trees. Identification plates were disposed, with popular and scientific names, in each arboreal species and also a great map was built to share the activity developed with the school community. In the sequence, the planting of the new species was accomplished, and, in groups the students had the opportunity to plant the seedlings. Afterwards the students accomplished an evaluation of the activities. In the closing a practice of environmental perception was lead. Initially, most of the students noticed the environment as something basically associate to the natural resources and at the end of the work it was noticed the appearance of a new speech to which the human being was associated and also linked values to the work in team, cares with our house, school, community and us same. Besides, the use of the vegetation as instrument of environmental education was shown positive, because the students were instigated to learning to plant and to take care of the trees and they noticed that can use them as form of to embellish and to take care of the environment, feeling responsible for the growth and development of the seedlings. The activity of environmental perception woke up the exercise of the citizenship, because to the identify a vacant lot used as garbage deposit in the proximities of the school the students committed to request in writing, to the can executive municipal, the installation of a square for the community in this place. This way, the work of environmental education contributed for the sensitization of a new environmental conscience and to wake up the responsibility and care with the environment.