Ten students from Degree in Environmental Sciences of the University of Navarra have implemented during this academic year a project of Education environmental at the high school Blessed Sacrament of Pamplona. The students of Degree have developed a set of activities related to nature and the environment in which the children of a classroom of 3rd grade of Primary School have participated.

The purpose of this activity has been to put in contact with nature to schoolchildren and convey the importance of caring for the natural environment. "The goal was to offer them an opportunity to contact with nature to work on environmental issues in a complementary way to what they usually work on at classroom", indicates Ana Villarroya, manager of the subject of Education Environmental of the University of Navarra.

One of the activities carried out was the collection of plastic caps to make a set for the play at the end of the school year party. In addition, students have participated in workshops and games about nature at Campus of the University of Navarra where they have been able to identify animal species and trees, or learn how waste is managed, among other issues.

The students of Degree and monitors of this educational experience have highlighted the involvement and commitment of high school and the students in the proposed activities. Sofía Montoro, Environmental Science student and monitor of project, highlighted the importance of children experiencing nature on a sensory level: "We wanted to teach them to enjoy the environment, because the appreciation of nature comes from an early connection with it".

This project of Education environmental -which has been developed at the beginning of April- will be held next year in the same high school and within the framework of the subject of Education Environmental and Communication that is taught in the Degree of Environmental Sciences at the University of Navarra.