In this paper we present an experience related to environmental education that was accomplished with high school students. The educational material based on the legal process, was offered to high school students in a short term course in which the content was about the social and environmental impacts caused by the creation of the water reservoir at the Três Irmãos Hydroelectric Power Plant , that was built in the Tietê river, in the State of São Paulo, in Brazil. The main focus of the research was to analyze the potential of this case of environmental rights in order to support the educational practice within environmental education. The short term course was based on dialogued in the classes, working groups and dramatizations. By the end of the activities interviews were made with the students aiming to comprehend the meanings given by them of the whole educational experience. The analysis of these interviews, by a phenomenological approach, made it possible to construct and to discuss some perspectives that seemed potentially useful in exploring environmental rights at the basic school level.
Environmental education; Environmental law; High School
