Fazendo ciência no ensino fundamental para a conservação das abelhas

Abstract

Knowing to conserve is the statement considered in this thesis, in which the main objective is to encourage the conservation of bees through scientific training actions in basic education schools. Understand the students' perception of bees, collaborate with the construction of knowledge about them, highlighting the understanding and approximation with these pollinators. The study is organized into three chapters. The first one investigates the students' perception of bees and pollination and relates this perception to the type of school (municipal, state or federal), gender (female and male) and age group (10 to 15 years old). The results of this investigation show that students mainly recognize Apis mellifera (50%), followed by stingless bees (39%) and solitary bees (11%). Most students think that bees should be protected (93.14%), although some of them do not recognize them as important to people (33.33%). The results suggest that almost half of the students (42%) are not sure what pollination is, although 72.28% believe that they do. This research offers an overview of students' perception of bees and suggests possible gaps in knowledge about bees that can be used as a starting point for educational actions for the conservation of pollinators. The second chapter describes the experience of a project that took place in a city school in Uberlandia - MG and seeks to understand whether the approximation of students with science can make their view of bees positive, seeking to stimulate the conservation of these pollinators through the Scientific Literacy of the involved. The students participating in the project began to recognize the importance of pollination and bees, becoming important allies for to preserve the diversity of bees. The third chapter, on the other hand, reports a virtual project on bees with students from a federal school, addressing Citizen Science and Inquired-based Science Teaching. The chapter deals with an investigation of the creation of a data collection protocol on pollinator-plant interaction, by students, involving bees and using the iNaturalist platform as a database. In addition, the project “Abelhas de Uberlândia” was created on iNaturalist grouping all records of bees in the city. As a result, a protocol was created and improved, and project participants became more aware of bees in the city of Uberlandia-MG.