Environmental education in urban centers: a word about an experience in public education in Curitiba, Paraná State

Abstract

This paper describes an experience in the environmental education field, that happened in 2006, concerning the PET-Geologia group from the Federal University of Paraná. In that occasion, a sixth grade class was chosen from the Hildebrando de Araújo School, of Curitiba. The project’s development was based on ludic activities and audiovisual resources, in order to better interact with the students and offer a non-usual approach in teaching. Technical-scientific content was integrated with urban life issues and presented to the class. All the subjects were well absorbed by the students. The main difficulties in the project were poor notion of the students about geographic space, as well as their lack of knowledge about the importance of the environmental consciousness in using nature’s resources, and the necessity of a reinforcement of a continuous training of teachers on the related subjects.