RECOGNITION OF THE FAUNA AND FLORA OF THE BAIXADA SANTISTA REGION: APPLICATIONS IN THE PIBID UNISANTA SUB-PROGRAM Jorge Luis Santos

Abstract

Urban life changes the way people observe the environment around them. Children, young people and adults sometimes fail to notice a wide range of processes, conditions and actors in nature, close to their homes, work and school. In this sense, the main proposal of this project is to bring the community closer, through children, to the set of environmental arguments of the City of Santos-SP, such as the use of practical pedagogical methodologies applied by undergraduate biology students to students in public schools, thus allowing a more prepared and critical view of this set of events. The work aimed to propose the development of new educational practices in schools that increase the contact of elementary school students with the natural daily life of the surroundings where they live, study and attend, involving these students more with environmental issues of the city and surroundings. To prepare PIBID scholarship students for new didactic and pedagogical approaches by understanding environmental problems, emphasizing their origin and possible solutions. Develop educational practices on the environment that allow school students to become disseminators of knowledge and models of awareness about environmental issues in cities for their families and other individuals in their community. Produce information that can serve as a model for teaching science and biology in the public school system in the city of Santos. Generate data that generate publications in scientific initiation events and other forms of scientific dissemination. Elementary school students actively participated in all stages of the school project. The use of shrimp fishing waste to assemble kits and bring students closer to different organisms and the use of waste as a tool for environmental awareness among students, leading participants to improve laboratory techniques and animal identification. The planning and preparation of the classes carried out by PIBID scholarship students was considered satisfactory. The data acquired through the PIBID program were used to present papers at the VI BRAZILIAN CONGRESS OF SCIENTIFIC INITIATION (COBRIC).