A merenda escolar dentro do contexto da educação ambiental

Abstract

This research monograph sought to involve the school community aware of the problems with students that healthy eating while not affecting the environment. Being carried out educational activities to stimulate the awareness that the snack, provided by both the school and brought home by students, they were healthy snacks, homemade, like fruits, vegetables, etc., that have higher nutritional value and that waste and garbage generated by them are more easily degraded, not causing much damage to the environment, unlike industrialized snacks that not only do harm to health end up producing a litter that will take time to decompose. To achieve these goals, it was used as a data collection methodology, through a questionnaire in children and adolescents in school, aiming to get to know your preferences in relation to school meals, for example, preferably from fruits and biscuits stuffed and her knowledge as to what would cause damage to the environment from such waste food, soon after were several educational activities and experience with students (dynamic decomposition of organic and inorganic), where he has to see the decomposition of each product and their differences so that students could have more clarity about an environmental awareness through the school lunch, after work with the help of all teachers of the school was again conducted a survey with students, where it showed me that the vast majority are conscious about preserving the environment through a healthy diet. The development of methodology provided the expansion of knowledge, building and developing activities that encourage broad awareness of issues relating to environmental education.