Environmental culture in primary education

Abstract

The research assumes the importance of achieving, in primary students, the development of an environmental culture that allows them to investigate and relate to the main environmental problems, derived from the irresponsible action of man. To this end, school research activity is privileged, prioritizing the search for information in various sources within its reach, such as basic texts, printed or digital encyclopedias, people who can support their investigative activity in addition to parents, the newspaper library and books. present in the school library. In this way, the students, specifically in fifth and sixth grades, relate to and appropriate essential concepts, inherent to the main global environmental problems, and identify and value those with the highest incidence in their community, in order to, together with the teacher, put into practice a set of activities, coinciding with the dates on which ecological or environmental anniversaries are celebrated, declared internationally. Some actions, derived from the designed activities, tend to favor the community environment, such as planting trees and cleaning the surrounding areas. Contests, exhibitions and special morning meetings are also carried out with the aim of disclosing the work. After the partial implementation in the educational practice of the set of activities, a final diagnosis is applied which, when compared with the initial diagnosis, allows verifying its feasibility, for which descriptive statistical elements are used.