Abstract

MELO, Nuno; TELO, Carlos  and  SARREIRA, Pedro. The Plant@ESELx Project and the participation of students in the characterization of ESELx's plant heritage. Invest. Práticas [online]. 2022, vol.12, n.1, pp.188-208.  Epub Mar 29, 2022. ISSN 2182-1372.  https://doi.org/10.25757/invep.v12i1.321.

The Plant@ESELx Project is an intervention project in the exterior areas of the Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa (ESELx), which aims to enhance the institution's plant heritage and, at the same time, raise the awareness of the academic community to the importance of its preservation and for the didactic-pedagogical potential that it can have. Thus, the main plant species were inventoried, identified and characterized. The characterization process had the direct participation of students who, in the scope of the “Mundo Vivo” curricular unit of the Degree in Basic Education, searched for the information necessary to characterize the identified species. The information was later organized on a website. Identification plates were also created and placed next to the featured specimens. These plates contain a QR code that allows, through smartphones and other mobile devices, quick access to all the information available on the website.

At the end, the students answered a questionnaire, in which they expressed their opinion about the work carried out and about the Plant@ESELx project. The results reveal that the students considered their participation as an important formative moment and they highlighted, in addition to valuing outdoor spaces, the project's contribution to increasing respect for biodiversity in the academic community.

Keywords : Biodiversity; Environmental citizenship; Green spaces; Sustainable development goals.

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