Neurosciences for High School

dissemination of scientific knowledge at Santarém, State of Pará, Brazil

Abstract

Neuroscience is an area of knowledge that seeks to understand the different mental processes and the underlying bases of the Nervous System. This theme currently has gained greater focus for helping to understand and enhance mechanisms of learning at different academic levels. In this sense, teenagers in high school are still vulnerable in their ability to make decisions and part of this vulnerability may be due to the lack of knowledge of the phenomena that Neuroscience allows to elucidate. In this perspective, this project sought to bring to high school students of a public school in the city of Santarém/Pará, theoretical and practical knowledge about the applications and concepts of the Neurosciences. To get know the several themes of this area, each week a different theme was approached, relating to the integration of the functioning of the brain and the rest of the body. The experience of introducing concepts of the functioning of the “brain-mind” pair for these teenagers made the dissemination of the Neurosciences an effective way to popularize this area of science, as well as, motivate them to learn and understand their reality, since Neuroscience blends several areas of knowledge.