FOLLOWING DARWIN
In partnership with the USP Zoology Museum, an incredible interactive exhibition about the life and work of THE english naturalist Charles Darwin was set up inside the Tall Ship Tocorimé Pamatojari.
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EXHIBITION OBJECTIVE:
To foster in new minds the fundamental importance
of Sustainable Development for the Planet's Evolution.
The exhibition was available for schools across Rio de Janeiro's coast. Conceived as a journey through time, the exhibition made students experience the universe of the English naturalist and his discoveries aboard the HSM Beagle.
Students had a unique chance to learn about Evolution and Environmental Sustainability through monitored games and activities specially built to develop teamwork skills, focus, attention, and memory.
EXHIBITION PROGRAM
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The schools were received on the pier and the students were divided into groups of 20. The groups were sent to the Educational Monitors of the exhibition, who carried out the Reception - an initial reflection on various aspects related to biodiversity preservation.
In the cockpit, the students took part in the first interactive activity of the exhibition: a game that simulated the sorting of the collection material, which consisted of separating animals based on their own criteria.
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Next, each group was guided by the monitors inside the vessel, where there was a reproduction of the cabin of the HMS Beagle. There, the second interactive activity would take place: the students had to classify organisms according to biological logic.
Entering the main hall of the vessel, the students came across part of the native biodiversity observed by Darwin.
At that moment, in the face of numerous evidences, the third dynamic was carried out: the students had to propose the kinship relationships between living beings, resulting in the construction of a tree of life, resulting in the understanding of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Back on deck, the fourth interactive action of the exhibition took place, this time between the students and the crew. Issues related to navigation and the environment were addressed. In the end, the students learned how to do some nautical knots used in the seamanship of the sails.
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