Ecological Garden Club: Sowing Knowledge, Cultivating Knowledge, Harvesting Flavors

Abstract

The present report discusses an initiative of the students of the EEMTI Jacob Nobre de Oliveira Benevides club, with the intention of promoting sustainable practices in the educational institution, optimizing physical spaces around the school, promoting protagonism and optimizing the relationship between school and school. community, in addition to arousing students' interest in environmental projects. Seeking to insert the environmental education theme into the school, we present the ecological garden project, relating the theories worked in the classroom with the student's practice, as well as the school community. This club was formed by students from the 2nd year classes of high school with the support of a mentor teacher. With weekly guided meetings, the project was designed and put into practice in three actions. Action I: construction of beds with pet bottles; action II: soil preparation and cultivation; action III: production of organic relents. Questionnaires with closed questions were applied to a sample of 30 students of the researched research, seeking answers about the proposed objectives. According to the results, the Project was successful because it aroused in the students a greater interest in building knowledge in a pleasant way, providing opportunities for student protagonism and strengthening the school community relationship.