Description:
In view of the alarming effects that atmosphere contamination has generated in the planet, diverse organisms intended to include the atmosphere like traverse axis in the educational systems. In Venezuela, this proposal was assumed in Primary School Second Stage. The objective of this study was to analyze the principle of curricular transversality in the environmental education teaching. The research was qualitative ethnographic and it was placed at the level of endogenous description. The discoveries allowed to establish the disciplinary character of the environmental education, a traditional model of teaching and a scarce relationship school-community.