Divulgando Ciências para Estudantes do Nível Fundamental: Projeto de Extensão em Microbiologia (in Portuguese)

Abstract

The aim of this work was to analyze the impact of the presentation of a University Extension Project to elementary school students with information about the importance of microorganisms in daily life, using a simple and didactic approach. The audience was composed of 79 students from three classes of seventh elementary grade from a public school in São Carlos-SP. The material was prepared comprising posters with general and specific information about the microorganisms, their relationship (goodness or badness) and presence at different places (environments); in addition audiovisual material (slides) for oral presentation were also prepared. The presentation consisted in an overview about exposition topics and a questionnaire was applied in order to highlight the students acceptation. We conclude that such work had a positive impact for students by introducing information in a different and attractive way, contributing to increase of knowledge and interest of the audience.