Creating environmental awareness in children is an investment

Awakening awareness and knowledge about the environment in children in order to build a better world together may sound like a utopia, but it is vital in this historical time. Environmental education for children aims for them to make caring for nature a lifestyle, instead of just studying it.

Developing ecological thinking in children and that it be used to defy current environmental challenges through participation and commitment, will generate a new society. That is why Gustavo Copelmayer is convinced that environmental education from an early age will promote values ​​inherent to love, respect, solidarity with the environment, nature and planet Earth.

He recommends promoting activities that maintain contact with nature, planting trees, caring for pets, crafts with reusable materials, creating ecological games, stories, and linking art with nature.

Finally, there are many actions that parents can teach their children by example. Environmental education also has other positive effects for the youngest, several scientific studies from universities such as Stanford, concluded that 83% of schoolchildren improved their ecological behavior and that 98% expanded their knowledge in other subjects such as math and science.

“Wisdom never says one thing and nature another.”

Decimo Junio Juvenal, Roman poet.