Environmental education with field classroom aiming to raise children’s awareness about forest and

Autores:

Anderson Martelli¹

Ariadne Fabiana Rodrigues Alvarenga²

Abstract

Affection, understanding, and responsibility are essential values in a process and virtues necessary to combat our para-

digms regarding environmental preservation, today a concern of the whole society. Thus, this article aimed to describe

an Environmental Education (EE) action with practical fi eld activities together with children and adolescents enrolled

in the Service of Coexistence and Strengthening of Links in the municipality of Itapira-SP. The practical activities were

carried out at the Municipal Nursery located at the headquarters of the Secretary of the Environment and monitored visits

at the model municipal spring located in the Braz Cavenaghi neighborhood of the municipality. The results showed an

excellent interaction between the participants and the activities developed in this study characterize plausible actions

about raising awareness among young people and educators regarding actions to preserve riparian forests, protect springs,

urban aff orestation and capture the gasses that cause the effect. greenhouse, serving as a link to participate in the concept

of sustainability.

Keywords: Nascent; seedling nursery; Environmental education, Itapira-SP.