As far as a new evaluation of environmental questions is
concerned in the science teaching while a constructive mean of children and
adolescents’ opinion and who are or will be in contact with them, the
present issue is proposed. Its goal is to identify the conceptions and the
science teachers’ pedagogical practice regarding to environmental education
in the elementary school, arising from their speeches the possible
contributions for the teaching of science in order make than aware of social
and environmental question. Therefor, eleven science teachers from
elementary schools participated in this research, from fifth to eighth grade,
from five state schools in Paraná State (Brazil). It is easy to realize that
most of the interviewed teachers do no have a clear concept about the
environment. They emphasize the environment as it is the nature , the
place where we live and from where we extract resources.y