Environmental education and its influence on childhood learning for the formation an aware citizen

Abstract

Environmental education is becoming a topic increasingly addressed in society, being of extreme importance for the participation of the individual in the midst of a community. Since the 1760s, with the Industrial Revolution, man began the degradation of the environment as a source of natural resources for the rapid production of the industrial means of the time, generating a great problem with different types of pollution in the world, among them the management of solid waste. It was only in the mid-1970s that this vision began to be changed. In Brazil, after many years, the National Policy on Solid Waste (Law 12,305 of 2010) was instituted aiming at the non-generation, reduction, reuse and adequate final destination in a way that does not harm the environment. The problem of waste only grows each year, generating concern about the future. n this way, environmental education enters as an instrument of awareness of people from the influence of individuals with society. Therefore, this work was developed for children, in the case students of the Pio XII Application School, aiming at the reduction and adequate management of solid waste, applying a suitable environmental education for a significant change of behavior from the creation of materials (primer and games easy to understand issues related to solid waste management.