A importância das práticas de ensino voltadas para a educação ambiental: uma experiência no Colégio Franciscano Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Guaíra (PR)

Abstract

This study has aimed to apply teaching practices in order to better understanding of environmental issues by students of Franciscano Nossa Senhora do Carmo School, in Guaira, PR, referring to structure and operation of the Basin Stream Marginal (BHCM), located in same city. This teaching has succeeded by applying dynamic practical teaching to analyze the students' knowledge about it and promote further learning. First, we applied a quiz to discover in what level the environmental design students about BHCM was at the beginning of the project. Later, the students increased their knowledge through dialogued and expository explanations with an open of discussions to better understand the study. In terms of methods and techniques, the project: a) there were didactic constructions (models, location maps sketches and paintings to analyze the landscape physiology) and b) performed field classes to better understand the theory. By analyzing and comparing the results of the survey it was understood where students should focus more environmental education on matters related to the structure and functioning of BHCM, critically influencing the ways of thinking, acting and noticing the environment which they belong to, realizing man as intensifier environmental impacts inclusive in the natural / built. The student’s perception revealed content not manifest of experiences in relation to the environmental impacts associated with standards of local land use, the conservation as attribution of meanings to BHCM, and natural features such as key determinants of preferences and of landscapes quality.