A EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL I: análise sobre o tema aquecimento global nos livros didáticos

Abstract

This paper is about Environmental Education at Elementary School. It searches to analyse how Global Warming is being approached in school books. This is important to conceptualize notions as environment and environmental education and to identify Global Warming myths in school books. This paper aims to understand the importance of the teaching of science, focusing on scientific literacy as an essential element for Elementary school students. This goal will be reached through bibliography revision of papers and scientific articles. The metodology chosen was hypothetic deductive method. This study made clear that the teaching of Science must give students the opportunity to develop actions that can have a positive impact into their personal, colective, social and environmental lives and that Environmental Education is a tool to promote students’ awareness of their actions and choices: it makes it possible for them to become reflective and, through it, learn to preserve the environment and, thus, make the world a better place