Education and Outreach in Brazil

The
Open
Laboratory
ForInterac2vity
Education and
Outreach in Brazil
GustavoRojas
FederalUniversityofSãoCarlos
AboutFederalUniversityofSãoCarlos
UFSCarisapublicUniversityinSãoCarlos,240kmNWofSãoPaulo.
Itisamongthetop10Federaluniversi2esinthecountry.
Itsthreecampuseshouse60coursesand15000students.
The
Open
Laboratory
ForInterac2vity
• The Open Laboratory for Interac2vity (Labi) was founded in 2007 in Federal
University of São Carlos, Brazil. It aims at developing new science educa2on
and outreach methodologies, with inputs from different knowledge areas,
uni2ngscien2sts,sciencecommunicatorsandar2sts.
• Theprojectsdevelopedsofarhavefocusedin4mainareas:
• Teachertrainingcourses
• Mediaproducts(Radio,TV)
• Internetproducts(scienceblog,sciencee-magazine)
• InteracFveexhibits
Teacher Training at UFSCar
Short-termcourses(20h)
RegionalAstronomyMeeFngs(EREA)
Na2onwideworkshopsforteachers,mainlyin
small towns and regions where there are no
Universi2es/Observatories/Planetariums.
CoordinatedatRiodeJaneiroandSãoCarlos.
Since Sep/2009: 24 workshops, 3500
teacherstrainedin9states.
Radio: Paideia !
90
Interactive Exhibits!
SCALES(2008-9)LAbI’sfirstexhibit
consistedinaseriesofprojec2ons
portrayingthedifferentscalesintheuniverse,fromtheverysmalltothe
verylarge.Moviescouldbecontrolledbytheinteractorbyusingflashlights.
AModernTime(2009-10)
T h i s i n s t a l l a 2 o n f o c u s e d o n
experiments involving Time and its
d i ff e r e n t m e a n i n g s , f r o m
chronological and psychological 2me
tophysicalspace2me.
Interactive Exhibits: Memoirs of a Carbon (2011-12)!
Narrative about a carbon atom, from the
interior of a massive star to the Earth’s
atmosphere.!
!
Participants can interact with the narrative
using Kinect controls!
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Parallel exhibits: Meteorites and Fossils!
Thankyou!–contact:grojas@ufscar.br
SpecialAcknowledgmentstoLAbITeam
Prof.Dr.AdilsonJ.A.deOliveira–Coordinator
MSc.MarianaPezzo–Execu2vecoordenator
MSc.TarcioMintoFabricio–Journalism
Dr.LuizDiniz-Researcher
MarioRighee–Producer
LeonardoDallaCosta–Electronics
@ceudasemana
@clickciencia
Findoutmoreatwww.labi.ufscar.br