Hortas nas escolas: uma alternativa para a educação ambiental e sustentabilidade

Abstract

The garden inserted at the environment school, can be a living laboratory that enables the development of various educational activities in environmental education and food combining theory and practice in context. The objective wasprovide opportunities for the development of educational activities to allow staff on practices exploring the multiplicity of ways of learning and raising awareness among children of 7 and 8 series the importance of implementing and maintaining a vegetable in school. This research was applied in a SchoolCasteloBranco school in the city of Trindade - Goiás, from March 2011 to May 2012. With approximately 436, aged 13 and 15, the seventh and eighth grade year of elementary school 2 , this school afternoon shift. This school develops various educational projects. actually it has been found that students felt more motivated to create favorable habits to health, to value the environment. After making the relationship between theory and practice the student goes to value the environment in which they live respecting their limits becoming a conscious consumer, which will reach maturity bringing health. With this idea implanted in school got exceptionally positive earnings and expected rachievements.