Entomologia para escoteiros

uma experiência de extensão do grupo PET Biologia/Uberlândia em diferentes espaços educativos

Abstract

Historically, scouting is intimately tied to the life of its founder, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, who developed the methodology of survival and grouping, based on the understanding of nature. The teaching of entomology would become a way to reach the practitioners of scouting, because the insects are animals present in several ecosystems, in addition to sharing several aspects of human life. In order to develop an activity in a differentiated reality of teaching and learning, the PET/Biology/UFU, aimed to contribute to the formation of the Boy Scouts and, simultaneously, to improve the abilities of members of the group themselves, using the theme entomology. The work was carried out with the group “Escoteiro Triângulo” between August and November/ 2014, in Uberlândia, with a total of four encounters, in general terms: general aspects of entomology, morphological diversity of insects, pathologies caused by insects and transmission of some diseases and their vectors. The results of the project showed that the exchange of experience with the target audience showed the following: greater understanding of the importance of planning to carry out activities, content transposition, language adequacy, and application of tools studied in higher education. These results show that the extension principle was satisfactory.