Educacão ambiental: a conexão entre meio ambiente e cidadania

Abstract

This work has as its theme the insertion of environmental education methods to train children in multipliers of sustainable practices. The critical environmental issue of our planet has been gaining space in the daily lives of people in recent years. The awareness of the population must happen from childhood, because in this period are learned and fixed the values of each one, such as respect for others and the environment. Environmental education proposes to form ethical citizens in their relations with society and the environment. Thus, this work establishes a connection between the environment and society, teaching, instigating and empowering children between six and fourteen years, through activities based on the learning process that focuses on the local environmental reality and its possible solutions based on sustainability. The topics covered involve ecological interactions, introducing various environmental issues related to the daily life of these children, linked to the Municipal Environment Department, involving contents that make it possible to transform from Environmental Education children capable of propagating environmentally correct attitudes and teachings. This project has provided optimized and feasible results for the improvement of local society, through changes in the behaviors and attitudes of those involved in this learning process, thus enabling a convenient environment for the environment and society, a connection of sustainability, a proposal for obtaining of values and environmentally correct actions for the formation of citizenship.