Educação ambiental na escola: conscientização da necessidade de proteção da camada de ozônio

Abstract

So much has been talk and write about the biggest problems of humanity, cause by super population and for the industrial development, but each person has a different point of view about what is happening with the environment. This work aims to study the environmental education in school: the need to protect the ozone layer, and intend to give information about the main causes of the ozone layer destruction and its consequences. The main objective is to develop educational actions with students of the 3ª degree class of the Polytechnic College of the Federal University of Santa Maria – UFSM, and work with them about questions and environment problems, more specifically about the problem of the ozone layer. The methodology used here covered active methods in class, lectures, books, folders, etc, with the aim to make the student aware of the need to protect the ozone layer. It was determined that nowadays the Environmental Education in School is a very efficient instrument to teach and apply sustainable interactions between nature and society. It is the way which each individual could change his habits and practice new attitudes which lead to a minimum environmental degradation, increase live quality and reduce the pressure over the planet environmental resources.