This research in Environmental Education involved children between six and eleven years old from a working class district - Cohab I - of a Botucatu town. The main purpose of the research was to contribute to the development of behaviour which involved care of the environment where they lived, giving an opportunity to obtain knowledge, values, attitudes and active interests in order to protect and make their district better. This study is based on action research that considers the participation of the people involved in knowledge production process to be fundamental. Through talks, activites and jokes, children learnt about the district, and they came to understand how they might perform an important social role of life quality improvement in environment in which they live. The children were encouraged to participate and involve adults in their concerns.
environmental education; action-participative-research; work in groups