Percepção do meio ambiente por parte dos alunos do ensino fundamental II das escolas no município de Cuité, na região do Curimataú Paraibano.

Abstract

Environmental awareness and the awareness of the problems of the environment, and the action of perceiving the environment in which it is inserted, learning to protect and care for him. As soon as this work was carried out to verify the environmental perception of students of elementary schools 11 of Cuité/PB. In the month of September 2011, were randomly selected 59 students from 3 public schools in the municipality of Cuité/PB, distributed as follows: 19 students in the 7TH year ofthe E. M. E F, Julieta de Lima e Costa (group A), 20 students ofthe 8TH year of the E. E. E. F. M. Orlando Venâncio dos Santos (group B) and 20 students in the 9TH year of E. M. E. F. Elça Carvalho da Fonseca (group C). The students answered two questionnaires: the socio-economic, where information was obtained in the type: age range, gender, origin family, level of education of the parents and other people who live in the same family environment and the second, which was analyzed in the environmental sense of the students and environmental impacts in the municipality. As they considered the air breathed: 57.9 % in group A replied healthy, in group B, 60% said they had polluted and in group C, 45% answered polluted and 45% did not know or did not respond. If the fruits and vegetables consumed by them were treated with pesticides, the majority said yes: A (63.2 %), B (35 %) and C (60 %), with 35% of the group B replied that they had not. If the water consumed was treated properly, the majority replied that yes, the (100%), B (75 %) and C (40 %) If the students knew the final destination of the garbage, the majority (A.= 52,7 %; B = 65% and C= 50 %) said that Yes. As for the destinations of the garbage, we have that in group A, 57.14 % burn the garbage; in group B, 55% answered that will go to the dump and in group C, 47.6 % did not know or did not respond. The majority responded that they knew other human actions that caused harm to the environment: A (100 %), B (95 %) and C (90 %). What is the most polluting the air of the city, the majority of the group the quoted smoke (25 %) and burning (25 %); the majority of the B replied cars and motorcycles (27.6 %) and garbage (20.7 %) and in group C, the most (54.5 %) answered cars and motorcycles. The majority of the respondents said that he knew other environmental problems: A (632 %), B (65 %) and C (45 %) What would these problems, the most cited was the garbage thrown in inappropriate sites: the (15.8 %) and B (222 %). Group B also mentioned the issue of extinction, death, and hunting of animals (22.2 %). The majority of the group C (428 %) cited the pollution of waters. As to what could be done to improve the space they occupy, the majority of the group (2l %) answered not deforest. The majority in all of the groups, (18.9 %), B (23.1 %) and C (167 %) mentioned do not throw garbage on the streets, nor in the environment and keep the streets clean, ln group C, 20% responded reuse objects that will separate the trash or garbage, On if there is noise pollution in the environment in which they live, the majority said yes: A (58%), B (70 %) and C (70 %). With this work, we have observed that the students are familiar with the environmental problems of the city, but that little or nothing to change the reality around them.