Educação ambiental: um estudo de caso sobre a conscientização das queimadas

Abstract

The guiding question of this work is to analyze students' conceptions about environmental education: a study on fires. The objective of the study was to promote a case study on students' opinions regarding the fires in the municipality of Angical do Piauí. Followed by the specific objectives: Analyze the importance of teaching about fires, Identify the causes of fires and Recognize the damage that fires cause. Environmental Education is a set of practices and concepts aimed at achieving quality of life, with the aim of creating guidelines for the region's self-sustainability. The relevance of discussing this topic is due to the fact that WE must be practiced in the entire society. The research of the qualitative article applied questionnaires with open and closed questions to 9th year students at the Irismar Freitas School Unit. The collected data was interpreted through graphs and charts. From the analysis of the questionnaires applied, it was possible to infer that fires are natural or intentional phenomena that normally occur in dry areas. Therefore, the students point to the burning of garbage as the main cause of the fires in Angical do Piauí, followed by the burning of fields to planting pastures for animals and food for human consumption. It is concluded that the students find the topic very important because, according to them, it encourages and raises awareness of good preservation of the environment, eliminating serious damage to health, as well as reducing air pollution and reducing drought.