Poluição e educação ambiental: análise sobre a abordagem no ensino fundamental

Abstract

Knowing the importance of Environmental Education in all social aspects, especially in school, which is the environment that we acquire knowledge we take to life, and that pollution is one of the subjects that most concern today, responsible for causing a lot of damage to the ecosystem. This shows the importance of teaching and sensitizing people about the preservation of the environment. Therefore, the objective of this research was to identify how the theme pollution and environmental education has been worked in elementary schools. This article presents results of a literature review where the data collection occurred through the Google Scholar database in the period from 2011 to 2022. With the analysis of the researched works it was possible to perceive that the number of publications that encompasses the objective of the research in the time researched is small, being seven publications. The teaching and learning methodologies on Environmental Education addressed in schools were activities focused on the playful, which provided a clear learning, better understanding of the subjects addressed, activities that can be worked in all schools. Therefore, the theme is not yet as present in schools and not in all grades of elementary school as it should, and needs more work to be done in the area involving all grades.