Coleções biológicas como estratégia para a educação ambiental

Abstract

This monograph aims at assessing how the use of biological collections can enhance significantly the Environmental Education. Nowadays E.E. is the most important way of redeeming the values of nature, considering that biological relationships represent a complex interplay among the wide variety of ecosystems. Thinking about this the present paper uses the construction of an entomological collection with students from the 6th grade of Nossa Senhora de Fátima Elementary school in the city of Cachoeira do Sul/RS. This research is justified by the constant concern that society has in relation to the environment, thus enabling schools to have the means to promote environmental education for conservation and preservation of species. It has been conducted by means of descriptive exploratory and participatory research, where the prior knowledge of the students was first investigated and subsequently the evolution of such knowledge through direct contact of the students with the biological collection. The results indicate that the biological collections can really serve as a strategy for achieving environmental education in the classroom.