Environmental education with fi eld classroom aiming to raise children’s awareness about forest and spring preservation in the municipality of Itapira-SP
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51473/rcmos.v2i2.353Keywords:
Nascent, seedling nursery, Environmental education, Itapira-SPAbstract
Aff ection, understanding, and responsibility are essential values in a process and virtues necessary to combat our paradigms 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 eff ect. greenhouse, serving as a link to participate in the concept of sustainability.