A educação ambiental na aprendizagem significativa junto a natureza

Abstract

This qualitative study was developed in public school elementary school Dona Leopoldina in Santa Cruz do Sul in the year of 2011 and analyzed the use of experience in environmental education divorced from the context of the classroom, using the nature like basis and meaning factor in learning, something very necessary for students and society today. Search to understand the meaning of learning in environmental education in nature, carried out a literature review on importance and historicity of the Environmental Education and subsequently held at Environmental Education alternative experiences at school, in direct contact with nature, in school florest, we analyzed the testimony of the students in the school blog and conclude the significance of learning in nature and in the path of life. The focus of this study was to track the life held in the forest school, where students rediscover nature with awareness, awakening dormant perceptions, largely unexplored, blindfolded, to deprive the vision and thus stimulates other senses and feelings. It was noticed in the activities and statements posted on the blog of the school, students have the desire for diverse and engaging lessons in direct contact with nature, which values the participation of all and, promote the learning of great significance for them. Environmental education should be a constant practice of transforming a function of thinking, leading to observation and awareness of the principles of our mother nature, that they realize that we are all interconnected in a network of relationships. As every action and environmental education to school students and nurture any community, good open paths, where attendees can delight and motivate yourself for a concrete and significant action on environmental education, in which people feel of a process that search more quality of life and a better planet to live.