Educação ambiental como ferramenta para o ensino de química ambiental

Abstract

The discussion about the environment has been growing in the last years, with this the environmental education gained a greater prominence in the teaching being worked of form transversal in the disciplines. From this perspective, the Açude Vivo project was created that aims at local preservation of the Weir Santo Anastácio dam located in the UFC. The target audience of this project, currently, are young people of high school, which allowed for a more in-depth chemical approach and providing to chemical discussion in the environment. In this way, this work seeks to bring the importance of Environmental Education for to define and clarify concepts around environmental chemistry for students in the second year of high school of Elementary and Middle School Joaquim Alves. The methodology consisted in the organization of six meetings realized in the Casa Verde, headquarters of the project, between November and December of 2018 with visits to the weir Santo Anastácio, to research projects, to Seara da Ciências and in the Regional Nucleus of Ophiology of the Federal University of Ceará (NUROF - UFC), a recycling workshop, besides discussions about videos and experiences of environmental chemistry. The data analysis consisted of knowing the students' prior knowledge about Environmental and Green Chemistry through an interview and a personal questionnaire related to the environmental theme. In the last meeting, to evaluate if methodology was able to aggregate the information about the environmental chemistry, the analysis of data occurred through an interview and discussion of the applied test, elaborated from issues contained in the editions of the National High School Examination (ENEM) which deal with the theme of Environmental Chemistry. An interview was conducted with the chemistry teacher of the students who participated, in order to ascertain the opinion of the faculty and the school about the work developed. Although the test presented a low hit rate, the interview and the discussion showed that this fact was linked to a deficiency in the knowledge of the Portuguese language, because they were able to describe the environmental and green chemistry of form minimal.

Keywords: Environmental Education. Environmental Chemistry. Chemistry Teaching.