Environmental education in an interdisciplinary approach from the reuse of long life cardboard packaging

Abstract

This work was conducted with students from a public school in the municipality of Duque de Caxias, RJ, as part of a teaching-learning process to approach Environmental Education subjects, initiated by practical activities reusing Long Life cardboard packages. The proposal was to reuse these packages in order to built, along with pupils, thermal insulation blankets, and install them as roof under-coverage in the school classrooms. Thus, we aimed to decrease the temperature inside the classroom and to make it more suitable for social living and learning. We evaluated possible students’ conceptions and perceptions changes about the environment, comparing their responses before and after all the educational activities proposed. A higher number of students associated environment to improvement of quality of life, and these students were able to recognize themselves as co-responsible citizenships to preserve the environment.