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The field of Environmental Education is not a science by its own, it borrows principles from other sciences such as physics, chemistry, philosophy, sociology etc. The interdisciplinary is a condition of the Environmental Education. This is something beneficial for the children so they will not experience the knowledge as something unilateral and fragmented but as an interdependent unit. The Environmental Education has an educational character that does not aim to study some phenomena but to train people, has a holistic dimension, since it exams various problems (environmental, social etc) as interactive members of one unit. The Environmental Education is a systematic and long-term way to transmit knowledge and to obtain skills regarding to the environment. The dynamic of Environmental Education has brought methodologies of the new education. These new methodologies created an atmosphere of freedom at school and promoted the spontaneity. When the development of initiatives is a possibility that is given to the students, they can participate in the process more efficiently and consciously. Furthermore, the ultimate aim of the new education is to create the development of a critical intellect, so that the students will obtain the necessary skills to reform the social space and to create a new world. In this assignment are presented the methodologies of the environmental education. How an environmental project is designed, what is required to complete it, which are the purposes and which are the results after completing concrete methodologies. Through the presentation of concrete environmental projects that were elaborated in the primary and secondary education. Moreover, examples of elaborated environmental projects for special education are given. Learning is considered to be a dynamic process that goes beyond the four walls of the classroom and where the students are encouraged to interact with social institutions outside the school. Students are not passive hosts or auditors of the tuition. They act, they search, they produce knowledge.