A horta orgânica escolar como alternativa de educação ambiental e alimentar para alunos da escola municipal presidente Rodrigues Alves, Rio Tinto-PB.

Abstract

The garden inserted into the school environment can be a living laboratory that enables the development of various pedagogical activities in environmental education and food combining theory and practice in context, helping in the teaching learning process. The present study aims to examine the importance of organic garden in promoting environmental and food education, encouraging students to take a critical view of the importance of healthy food grown in a natural environment. The study was conducted at the Municipal School President Rodrigues Alves Tavares in a rural community located in the municipality of Rio Tinto-PB, and beginning in November 2012 until December 2013. Classes were held once a week with approximately 86 students divided into two classes, aged between 7 to 14 years. The steps for implementing the project had the following descriptions: business school, first contact with students, project presentation, project development and implementation of school gardens and outcome of discussions. The results show that the most important for achieving the garden criterion was the joint activities between students, everyone had the opportunity to plant, sow and water the garden beds, where the activity that stood out for both was to planting, for being the first contact with the garden. These activities had an influence on the student's diet, since the vegetables were used in school meals. The project in turn, had reached his goal, improved the quality and supply of students sensitized on environmental issues, thus the implementation of organic gardens in school environments is necessary for there to be as much as changing eating habits reflecting environmental so in the lives of students, their families, neighbors and friends.