use of biology and natural environment contents in the teaching of environmental education

Abstract

This research aims at showing that games, dynamics and good forest practices were fundamental to the teaching of environmental education. This study was performed with fifteen students from a state high school who attended theoretical and practical classes at State University of Northern Paraná. Firstly we conducted the application of one game about natural places and another was about animals and plants. After that, we did different dynamics about ecology and the environment. Finally, we asked the participants to develop the agroforest process. Text excerpts from a questionnaire were chosen by means of those different instruments/tools, which were subject to discursive textual analysis. The results showed that those practices were effective in the teaching of environmental education. However, the results indicated that students know little about regional plants and regional animals. Therefore, there is a need to develop more activities so they learn names of Brazilian plants and animals.

Keywords

• environmental practices
• agroforest
• discursive textual analysis