Participant Observation About a Science Fair Project at a Rural School in Brazil: Perspectives for Environmental Education Enhancement

In this study, we describe the planning, preparation and presentation of the ScienceFair Investigation at a rural school in Pernambuco, Brazil. We found that the students’ mainconcerns were related to health and environment, with emphasis on the problems of theircommunity. Students and visitors cons...

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Autores principales: Silva, Marli Ferreira, Vasconcelos, Simão Dias
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Asociación de Docentes de Ciencias Biológicas de la Argentina 2015
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/revistaadbia/article/view/22469
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Sumario:In this study, we describe the planning, preparation and presentation of the ScienceFair Investigation at a rural school in Pernambuco, Brazil. We found that the students’ mainconcerns were related to health and environment, with emphasis on the problems of theircommunity. Students and visitors considered the experience to be very positive to improvetheir own knowledge and to help solve such problems in their community. The experiencehelped the students bring together the daily life of a scientist with their own reality living ina farming community with limited resources, and motivated them to keep on investigatingenvironmental problems around the school.