Environmental Education: A challenge in the construction and conservation of Biodiversity Claudia Santana Andrade

Abstract

Environmental  Education (EA) represent a challenge in the construction of values, conservation of  biodiversty  and integration of man as protagonist in changing the scenario of environmental degradation.This study investigated the aspects of knowledge about  biodiversity and sustainability within Early Childhood  Education (EI), seeking to integrate then into the National Curricular Guidelines and Legislation to support and investigate educational content as well as its applications.The logical construction was based on a bibliographical review that analyzed in the literature the material that was extracted from books,scientific journals, periodicals  and collection  available on the internet.The research evidenced that to integrate the concepts and EA in the EL it becomes necessary to use curricular matrices such as the National Curricular Common Base (BNCC) based on the living, Playing, Participating, Exploring, Expressing and Knowing oneself. Thematic axés are composed of different blocks to be worked with all the students, progressively, during the six years from Nursery l to Pre.Predicted in the Constitution of 1988, in the LDB of 1996 and in the National Plan of Education of 2014, BNCC, was prepared by specialists from each área of knowledge, with the valuable critical and proactive  participation of teaching professionals and civil society. In this way, environment issues can be explored through action and observation, manipulation, experimentation, Discovery, sharing of information, changing habits, caring for plants, animals, and the environmemt around the child in and of school spaces, thus awakening the critical  awareness and responsibility of the future adult about their actions towards the planet.