The natural history museum of the southern state of Espírito Santo - MUSES: didactic activities in Geosciences and Paleontology / Museu de história natural do sul do estado do Espírito Santo - MUSES: atividades didáticas em Geociências e Paleontologia

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Sandro Lúcio Mauri
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Marques, Rodson de Abreu, Assis, Sebastião Carlos Paes de, Fassarela, Viviane Thomazini, Figueiredo, Rodrigo Giesta, Vardieiro, Loruama Geovanna Guedes, Rangel, Caio Vinicius Gabrig Turbay
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Veras
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.brazilianjournals.com.br/ojs/index.php/BRJD/article/view/3146
• topic: Museum. Geosciences. Scientific communication. Training.

 The Natural History Museum of the Southern State of Espírito Santo is a space for the imrprovement of learning that devel-ops activities such as workshops and events to increase the interest of visitors. The Museum also stands out in the human re-sources formation such as preparation of materials, lectures, courses for the monitors training. This work aims to present the activities developed by the scholarship and volunteer monitors during the XIV Science and Technology Week. The museum gave the opportunity to train more than 80 monitors (fixed and volunteers), students of the Geology and Biological Sciences courses in workshops geosciences during the event. The results showed that 38% of the monitors had no contact with muse-ums in the last twelve months and that 45% still had no monitoring experience. The work showed that many reported lack self-confidence, about 45%, which required more expository classes and hands-on training for upcoming events. The conclusion is the Natural History Museum of the Southern State of Espírito Santo is a center of teaching and propagation of geosciences and paleontology, as well as the training of university monitors. This show the extreme importance in the southern region of Espírito Santo State.