Implantação de horta escolar como método de ensino para educação ambiental no ensino fundamental

Abstract

The environmental education is a right of everyone. At school it is inserted as a transversal theme, that intend to form conscious citizens, who respect and value the environment. This work presents the use of a school garden as a strategy for environmental education, in a primary school in Barra do Garças-MT. The implementation of this garden was done through the project “Mãos na terra", with the development of practical and theoretical classes, with the school community and teaching initiation program (PIBID) subproject biology, as well as an evaluation by students and staff about the efficiency of the project, through a questionnaire and interview. There was a great engagement of the students in the activities, being noticeable the contributions of the project in the sensitization of the students to the care with the environment. The school garden provided a greater contact with nature and made ninety percent of the students reflect on care for the land. It also allowed the teaching of important ecological concepts to create a reflection about the environmental impacts caused by human activity, and also improved the school environment and complemented the lunch that went to serve more vegetables. It was a change noticed by seventy-seven percent of the students. These results show that the use of a school garden and orchard together with practical and theoretical classes is an effective tool to teach Environmental Education.