Implementación de Estrategias de Educación Ambiental en el Colegio Técnico Pio Alberto Ferro Peña del Municipio de Chiquinquirá (Boyacá), para Fomentar en los Estudiantes de Grado 10° Y 11° la Cultura Ambiental y el Cuidado del Medio Ambiente

Abstract

Environmental education taught in student communities from an early age is one of the most important tools because it offers proposals to provide solutions to environmental problems, as it allows children and adolescents to be informed and guided so that they become aware of the importance to care for and preserve their environment and be willing to make changes in their values, behaviors, lifestyles, and ways of living together the scope of an ethic that promotes a new friendly way and feeling of shared responsibility to live in our common home . Environmental education expands knowledge to develop the ability to reflect in action, its main objective is to cause a change in people, in that case in girls, boys and young people and in the environment, being a participatory dynamic. This project was carried out with the objective of strengthening the knowledge and environmental awareness of the 10th and 11th grade students of the Pio Alberto Ferro Peña Technical School in the city of Chiquinquirá Boyacá, through an environmental education program accompanied by different practical activities aimed at the proper management of solid and organic waste generated within the institution and its homes to later give them a new use. Through these activities, it was possible to demonstrate the interest and motivation of the students with the adoption of favorable alternatives with the care of the environment. Environmental education is an elementary tool to achieve sustainability in search of a balance between the social, environmental, and economical.