About us

Our mascot: João Torrão!

We are students of Geography of the University of São Paulo, guided by Prof. Dr. Déborah de Oliveira of the Department of Geography of FFLCH / USP. Since 2009, our group has been working hard on soil education research. However, our great desire has always been a space where we could develop our activities toward primary and secondary schools. To fulfill our desire, on April 15, 2014, we inaugurated a Science Park, named “Soil at School Project”.

"We chose the 15th to launch in São Paulo, to celebrate the Soil Conservation Day", together with professor Débora de Oliveira, coordinator of the program. "We aim to give visitors an opportunity to know the soil as a natural resource that must be respected and preserved”. Déborah reminds us that in a city like São Paulo, with so little green space, it is very important to know how to preserve and respect the soil. "We want to raise awareness of how the soil is neglected due to urbanization, we want it to be better known and valued." Excerpt from the University of São Paulo Journal.


Our mascot, João Torrão, in plush

As project goals we aim to serve all municipal, state and private schools - elementary and secondary schools - or even other groups that shows interest in the project. This is because soil education is often overlooked or treated very superficially by schools. Our space is comprised of experiments, activities and dynamic events so that students, teachers and all users can specialize through direct contact with the natural resource so important for life: Soil!

Our project Soil at School belongs to a program supported by the Pro-Rectory of Culture and University Extension and is located in the dependencies of the Science and Technology Park of the University of São Paulo (Parque CienTec / USP), near the Zoo and the Botanical Garden.

CienTec USP park entrance.


CienTec park is an institution that offers educational and quality entertainment for children and young adults. Through its different forms of exhibit and scientific experiences, science and a technology are brought closer to the visitor, which allows them to appropriate knowledge while they have fun and enjoy themselves. Our targeted educational programs are located in a privileged environment surrounded by the Atlantic Rainforest, offering visitors a quality experience for learning science, technology and humanistic culture in general. 

CienTec website (portuguese)


Entrance of the project exhibit.



-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Coordinator:


Profª. Drª Déborah de Oliveira

Professor at the department of Geography, University of São Paulo.

Resume Lattes

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Participants that act or have already participated in the project:


Adriana Ribeiro Machado

Adriana Villar Rodrigues

Adriano Paulo Aparecido Pereira de Oliveira

Ana Clara Cerminaro

Ana Lígia dos Santos

Beatriz Hiroko Resende Miyazato

Camila Cunha Lacerda

Camila da Cunha Silva

Cristiano Camargo

Cintia Ferreira da Silva

Claudia Torralvo Arsenovicz

Diego Arruda Filgueira

Eduardo Luiz Morari

Gabriela Silva de Farias Betini

Horacio Sant Ana Cardoso da Silva

Jamille Santos Conceição

Jessica Cristina Costa

Lady Aparecida Silveira

Maria Luiza Perroni da Silva

Mariana Franco Carvalho

Mariane Carvalho

Marina Braguini Manganotte

Natália Nunes Patucci

Natalia Santo Lisboa

Nathalia Manso Kozlowski Pitombeira

Patrícia Christman

Renata Rosa da Silva Monteiro

Roger Ricardo Pinto

Sabrina da Cunha Silva

Thiago José de Oliveira

Victoria Azarias



-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Supports and Acknowledgments:


Financial support from the Vice-Rectory of Culture and Extension University-USP

CienTec-USP Park

Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences

Department of Geography

Soil at the School of UFPR

Soil at the School of Esalq-USP

Museum of Earth Sciences - UFV 

Comentários

Postar um comentário

Postagens mais visitadas deste blog

The birth of our project

Hello guys! Starting the activities of this blog, nothing more fair than a presentation about who we are and what we want! The research project on Soil Education, started in the Department of Geography of USP, under the initiative of Prof. Dr. Déborah de Oliveira in 2010. At the beginning there was only one student who started the research, in 2011 another 3 students joined us, constituting our group. Soil education is often forgotten in schools, or treated in a simple way, which can generate students disinterest. We will disseminate in this space the results of our research, guidance to teachers, experiments and exchange of experiences for soil education, after all it is a finite natural resource, as many others that must be respected and preserved. Beyond academic research we want to disseminate and make accessible materials and teaching methods that help teachers, students, and even other researchers in Soil Education. We will do this by addressing the subject of soil in a ...
Leia mais
Imagem
WHAT IS SOIL? Soils are complex mixtures of minerals, water, air, organic matter, and countless organisms that are the decaying remains of once-living things. It forms at the surface of land – it is the “skin of the earth.” Soil is capable of supporting plant life and is vital to life on earth. Soil, as formally defined in the Soil Science Society of America Glossary of Soil Science Terms, is: The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants. The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. So then, what is dirt? Dirt is what gets on our clothes or under our fingernails. It is soil that is out of place in our world...
Leia mais