UNIVERSDADE FEDERAL DE UBERLNDIA- UFU FACULDADE DE CINCIAS INTEGRADAS DO PONTAL-FACIP GRADUO EM CINCIAS BIOLGICAS A PRACTICAL LESSON AS AN EDUCATION AUXILIARY

ON HEALTH: BECOMING FAMILIAR WITH PARASITES AT SCHOOL

SANTOS, S. P. ; ALVES, P. S. C.; PEREIRA, F. A.; ARAUJO, T.E.*; MIRANDA, P. M.; GOIS, P. S. G.; FRANCO, T.M.; FERRAZ, K. F.

INTRODUCTION
A practical activity was performed by scholarship students and by the supervising teacher of the Biology course of the Institutional Project of Scholarships to the Initiation towards Teaching (IPSIT PIBID in Portuguese) Biology Subproject, sponsored by the Coordination of Personal Development at Graduating Level (CPDGL CAPES in Portuguese). The scholarship students who are working on this project are students at the Federal University of Uberlndia, Pontal Campus, Brasil. The practical lesson was performed at a public state school in the center of Ituiutaba-MG. The chosen content about Parasites is needen for the basic teaching due to the significance of the education on health at schools, which serves as a prevention tool for various diseases.

OBJECTIVE
The aim of this practical lesson was to present some kinds of parasites to students from ter groups of Platyhelminthes and Nemathelminthes, showing them their morphology and the diseases they cause, so that they can have a better knowledge of the diversity of the studied groups in an independent and reflexive manner, thus being able to avoid undesirable contaminations

RESULTS
The students interacted a lot with the scholarship students, that is why they referred to it as a different activity and that enabled a greater exposure of their previous knowledge. They were scared of the possibility of the parasites causing severe diseases and asked a lot about the diseases caused by other parasites. From the comparative analysis carried out between a regular expository lesson and the practical lesson performed at

METHODOLOGY
The practical lesson was performed on 05th September, 2011 for the regular 2nd grade evening group, which was taken for the first time to the school Science laboratory. A short theoretical part was given, explaining about the external structures of the animals, their relation towards the life cycle within the host, followed by prophylactic methods of the diseases each parasite caused. Then, specimens samples, which had been mentioned, were showed (Taenia sp., Ascaris lumbricides and Enterobius vermicularis) conserved in formaldehyde. As an evaluative method, a questionnaire was applied, which was answered with the help of the textbook, and which aimed at consolidating the content.

the laboratory, one could conclude that the students showed much more interest in the topic approached and there fore participated more actively in the lesson than they normally do in their regular lessons.

Figure: Students in class, answer the questions