Educação Ambiental no Ensino de Química: Abordado a Química Ambiental no Ensino Médio.

Abstract

The current environmental crisis facing the planet highlights the importance of addressing environmental issues and the need for discussions on topics such as pollution, global warming, conscious water usage, solid waste management, among others, to promote environmental education. This demonstrates that these issues are not just individual problems but societal concerns as a whole. Chemistry studies matter, meaning what is present in the environment. Through chemistry, environmental impacts such as contamination, greenhouse effect, and pollution are explained. The research addressed environmental education through chemistry classes for a 2nd-year class of the Integrated Technical Course in Chemistry at the Federal Institute of Amapá - Macapá campus. The intervention was divided into several stages: explanation of environmental concepts, the approach to the theme "Solid Waste" from a chemistry perspective, campus tours, classroom discussions, a workshop on solid waste reuse, and finally, a culminating exhibition for the school community. Two questionnaires were administered for data collection, one before the intervention and another after. The results of the second questionnaire were satisfactory, indicating that the students were able to absorb the information presented. Thus, the proposal demonstrated how environmental topics such as solid waste can be integrated into chemistry content in a contextualized manner, showing students the environmental impacts and encouraging actions in favor of the environment.