The project "Educating to Preserve: an Exercise of Citizenship"

“Educating to Preserve: an Exercise of Citizenship” aims to promote scientific communication through dialogue with the teachers from both elementary and high schools, sharing scientific knowledge. Moreover, this enables the implementation of new methods of teaching approach, encouraging students to search for knowledge. Amphibians are used as a starting point for further discussions on the importance of environmental preservation in the maintenance of species as well as the man's role in maintaining environmental homeostasis. This discussion allows to demystify the representation of their being disgusting animals, which was created by legends and/or popular culture. Considering that many teachers from public schools have not been in contact with scientific knowledge for quite some time, the project promotes lectures and didactic materials with uptated information of Amphibian biology. Moreover, it has ludic material in order to support educational activities and improve the learning process. Then, the project has a multidisciplinary approach since it promotes interdisciplinarity between Biology and Portuguese Language.

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Parental Care

Anurans can care their offsprings.


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Anphibian vocalization

Amphibians can produce sounds.

Let us known a little more about vocalization.

Visit our Flickr!

Project "Educating to Preserve" has now a gallery on Flickr.
You can find photos of our events we participated. All are invited to access them. Please, leave comments on our page.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/educarparapreservar

Here a small sample that you can view on our Flickr.

Important Message

Dear blog readers

Due to an inner error, messages from November 2010 until January 10th 2011 were not received.
We are working to solve the problem.

Please, use "educa.preserva@gmail.com" for contact us.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Amphibians in the food chain

Amphibians are important for equilibrium of the environment.


Let us know a little more about the food chain.

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Amphibians and Environmental Quality

Amphibians are bioindicators.


Like amphibians, word can hide! Let us look for them.


Have fun and learn!

The amphibian integument

Amphibians can live in several different environments, with plenty of water like aquatic amphibians, or even with little water.

There is an extensive variety of amphibians. They can present different collors, such as yellow, brown, blue, and green. The color of the integument depend on the species.

Let us know a little more about the integument of amphinians.

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