Natalia Pirani Ghilardi-Lopes‡, Gustavo Bellini Monteiro‡, Jussara Almeida Bezerra‡, Janaína Dutra Gonzalez‡Corresponding author: Natalia Pirani Ghilardi-Lopes ( natalia.lopes@ufabc.edu.br ) © Natalia Pirani Ghilardi-Lopes, Gustavo Bellini Monteiro, Jussara Almeida Bezerra, Janaína Dutra Gonzalez. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Ghilardi-Lopes NP, Monteiro GB, Bezerra JA, Gonzalez JD (2024) Changing knowledge and attitudes through citizen science at schools. ARPHA Proceedings 6: 141-145. https://doi.org/10.3897/ap.e126817 |  |
Improving scientific literacy among elementary and high school students is crucial. Here we report the learning outcomes of three Brazilian school initiatives that incorporated citizen science: 1. A cocreated one aimed at investigating biodiversity in a school garden; 2. A collaborative one focused on the phenology and life cycle of angiosperms; and 3. A collaborative initiative aimed at reducing food waste in schools. There is evidence that the initiatives promoted learning, such as: 1. Scientific content knowledge (life cycle of angiosperms, sustainable eating); 2. Procedural skills (asking productive questions; formulating clear and concise hypothesis; collecting precise and accurate data; drawing conclusions); 3. Improved self-efficacy for science; 4. Attitudes (reducing food waste, observing plants more frequently).