EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NA ESCOLA: ESTUDO DE CASO NA E.M.E.F MARIA RIBEIRO COSTA EM RIO VERDE- GOIÁS

Abstract

Brazil has always suffered from environmental problems and many times the problems caused are due to the fact that people are unaware of their actions or even because they think that nothing serious can happen, but many people still practice harmful acts today. environment for not agreeing with environmental policies or for lack of knowledge, in addition to having no responsibility for doing simple acts such as helping to keep cities clean. Therefore, this work aims to verify the knowledge of elementary school students on issues related to environmental education in a school in the city of Rio Verde - Goiás. The work was carried out at Maria Ribeiro Costa school, located in the Vila Menezes neighborhood. has elementary school academics. Children's learning was evaluated, before and after the lecture, through the application of a questionnaire to which there were questions related to the environment. Carrying out this work it was possible to verify that informing children in schools from an early age with environmental education is possible to change their habits, because like other disciplines, everyone is able to learn and therefore, learning from an early age, issues of environmental problems could be addressed. minimum. When you grow up without learning about a certain subject and without seeking knowledge about it, it is difficult to try to show people the problems that can happen because there is already an opinion formed and perhaps this is one of the big problems because even when floods, pollution, diseases and contamination due to the act of humans, many insist on believing that such problems are not the fault of the actions of the population.