Educação e sustentabilidade: o ensino de biologia como instrumento de conscientização ambiental

Abstract

This study has as its theme the education and sustainability: the teaching of biology , no IFFarroupilha – Campus Santo Augusto, as an instrument of environmental awareness. Is the result of an Interdisciplinary Project developed in health class, in the second half of 2009, where the aim was to develop an experience of contextualization and integration of knowledge from field trips and discussion of themes related the Turvo River Springs, river that crosses the municipalities of origin of the students of the Technical course in agriculture. This analysis also provides the discovery of what is behind the manifest content, going beyond the appearances of what is being communicated. It is concluded that the students had a significant advance in the process of learning, developing powers of observation, experimentation and analysis of the issue at hand, demonstrating commitment and achievement with the discoveries, as well as, mobilized the Group of teachers to plan and assess curriculum components under a different perspective.