Educação ambiental, uma proposta para a conscientização da importância da preservação da água para a vida

Abstract

Water is vital to sustain life on the planet, it represents a cycle link between ecosystems. The misuse of water is creating a crisis in much of the world, and concern for environmental conservation and improvement of quality of life is increasing. Environmental education emerged as a means to that consciousness is effected, because all depend on natural resources and these are part of the environment. The study sought information, along with students of the third and fourth series of the Municipal School of Basic Education in the city of São Sebastião Tunas / RS, in the appropriate use and conservation of water through a questionnaire to collect data. It was felt that this work with the theme Environmental Education could still be very explored by school teachers in their daily teaching practices, developing through a formal and informal education in an interdisciplinary way, including emphasizing the social aspect of the medium, trying to make recognize that water is essential for life and is a very finite and that one should be good practice for preservation and consumption, recognizing polluters, preventing its contamination, so it can be used with quality and quantity, and currently in next generations, using it for, daily educational practices, creative and differentiated, addressing the topic of water.