Plan de fundamentación inicial de educación ambiental como estrategia de sustentabilidad para la protección del medio ambiente en niños de 8 a 12 años de edad en la institución de la municipalidad de Carabayllo en el sector Las Lomas en Lima Perú

Abstract

In favor of the protection of the environment, together with the municipality of Carabayllo in Lima Peru and through the organization AISEC, an Environmental Education plan was contributed, which promoted principles of environmental awareness and supported the Ministry's responsibility of Education and governmental and non-governmental institutions from the different levels and educational modality that are worked in the country. This paper presents the implementation of the initial foundation plan of environmental education for the protection of the environment, in children from 8 to 12 years of age in the institution of the municipality of Carabayllo in the Las Lomas sector in Lima, Peru, as a strategy of sustainability in formal education, to promote necessary environmental attitudes and behaviors in the current context of environmental crisis. The Environmental Education plan was based on the creation of recreational and educational material based on the initial diagnosis made to the study population and was implemented with the purpose of influencing the change of vision and awareness of the children. The project was developed, based on pedagogical, recreational and participative workshops, guided around the reflection of four central environmental problems (solid waste, water pollution, global warming and natural disasters); through social cartography, theoretical lessons and recreational classes, where the students identified, knew and interpreted the environmental impacts and the effects on human beings. The program was evaluated and verified through indicators of knowledge and participation. Finally, and through the participation and awareness taken by the study population, it was possible to impart a preliminary and inductive knowledge of the adequate handling of different environmental problems that surround them and, as a whole, possible solutions were formulated; positively identifying that within the teaching - learning process, the topics addressed were understood and the study population expressed interest and awareness in the face of environmental protection and sustainable development.