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- Development of children’s attitudes and knowledge towards insects: the pedagogical role of school visits to exhibitionsPublication . Aguín-Pombo, D.; França, A.; Bento, A. V.; Azevedo, J.School visits is a common nonformal science education strategy used regularly by teachers to call students attention and develop positive attitudes towards nature. The purpose of this study was to understand whether 6-14 year old school children gained positive knowledge and attitudes towards insects and science after visiting an exhibition of live insects from different parts of the world. Two questionnaires with nearly identical items were applied before and after the visit, to 182 elementary school students. The results showed that positive attitudes towards insects and animals increase after the school visit but the knowledge gained was below expectations. The importance of pedagogical planning is discussed.
- Syntax and biology: a teaching experience with the Laboratory NotebookPublication . Rebelo, H.; Aguín-Pombo, D.In the 1st Cycle of Primary Education at the University of Madeira, preservice teachers have different courses including Portuguese and Natural Sciences. Education in Portugal from primary school to university level follows a unitary pedagogy circumscribed to every discipline rather than a global approach. We believe this pedagogic approach could benefit from an entirely different organization in which, instead of having a fragmented program, would have, when possible, pedagogical proposals and knowledge together. We demonstrate the usefulness of this interdisciplinary approach, bringing together two areas of knowledge (Syntax and Biology) that generally consider themselves apart, but that have much to give each other for the benefit of students and pupils at primary schools.