Museu Itinerante Ponto UFMG: potencial educativo para divulgação científica nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

Traveling museums play a fundamental role in promoting and encouraging scientific vocations, especially among children and young people, helping to awaken curiosity and interest in science. One of the goals of these museums is to decentralize scientific dissemination, since they bring science, technology and innovation to places that often lack access to scientific training, expanding the scope, visibility and access to scientific knowledge. This initiative helps to stimulate the development of scientific and logical thinking, encouraging curiosity in people, scientific production, promoting the popularization of science and the dissemination of knowledge to society, especially to children and young people. Thus, this work aims to develop educational material for use by teachers before and after visits, presenting the potential of the exhibition rooms of the Museu Itinerante Ponto UFMG, and proposing educational activities for use in the classroom. In addition, we sought to record the history and activities of the Museu Itinerante Ponto UFMG and investigate what information and materials, and in what format and support, elementary school teachers would like to be made available to prepare for the visit and to work with the class after the visit to the museum. To this end, the methodological approaches undertaken were bibliographic research, documentary analysis and a guided tour of the Museu Itinerante Ponto UFMG to produce data related to the themes addressed in each room, seek inspiration for the creation of the resource and improve the research data. The analysis of the documents revealed that the teachers, most of whom were from elementary school years, suggested that the museum make available text about the rooms, videos and educational materials for them to work with the class after the visit. Therefore, an Almanac was prepared that, in addition to presenting the content of the museum rooms, suggests activities to be worked on with the students.