This paper presents a research classified as qualitative, as its approach, exploratory
research, as its objectives, and action research, as its procedures developed in the
second semester and 2019 with the objective of: 1 - Know students perceptions and
conceptions High School on where they live environmental issues; 2 - Sharpen in these
students the critical and reflective thinking about local environmental issues, through
the elaboration of a proposal of intervention action on an environmental problem; and
3 - Know obstacles and possibilities for carrying out actions of Environmental
Education in the public school of Basic Education. This research aimed at a group of
high school students from a public school of a Collective Urban Resettlement on the
outskirts of the city of Altamira-PA. For data collection, the following techniques and
instruments were used: 1- Questionnaire application; 2 - Chat Wheel; 3 - Preparation
of proposition of action plan for intervention on a where they live environmental
problem; and 4 - Interview with the school coordination. As a result it was noticed that
the reflection provided by the dynamics added critical thinking in the project proposal
and dialogues more with an uncritical thinking on Environmental Education themes. In
addition, it was realized that the school, the target of this research, needs to develop
strategies that aim to improve the perception of its students around the environmental
problems present there.
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