Mudanças climáticas: percepções e práticas no ensino de ciências

Abstract

Environmental issues have been part of the nations' development agenda for many years with greater emphasis after the 1970s, being a milestone in the discussions of ecological manifestations worldwide. People's awareness of Environmental Education has been increasingly highlighted, because it is very relevant, within the global, social context and is directly affecting the lives of living beings. It is essential that everyone feels part of the environment, respecting and taking care of natural resources. Based on this, the present work had as general objective, to verify the conceptions about climate change of the students of a social entity, as well as to present and discuss with the students the causes and consequences of climate change. For data collection, a pre- and post-questionnaire were applied, a lecture was held and a didactic booklet on climate change was elaborated. 17 4th and 8th gradestudents participated in the research. The results of the pre-questionario indicate that the students' conceptions are distorted or even mistaken, most of them see climatic changes as something far from their daily lives. With the post-questionnaire, after the lecture it was found that all students claim to have knowledge about climate change, where the majority cites the media as the main source of information, ten percent cite the educational institution and three percent the textbook, they can already observe that the causes of climatic changes they are attributed to human activities, and their consequences are not yet related to their daily lives, but they believe that their attitudes contribute to coping with climate change. At the end of the work they show to have understood the importance of the theme, and its relevance to their life.