Getting in contact with schools: the synapsis between students and neuroscientistsGetting in contact with schools: the synapsis between students and neuroscientists

SUBIRADA, P.V.; ; UNSAIN, N.; HERRERA, G.; OLIVEROS, A.L.

Córdoba

Congreso; XXXIII Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Neurociencias; 2018

Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Neurociencias

The brain is our most intriguing organ. An important function is to detect and interpret eventstaking place in the environment through senses and command a response. How are theseprocesses seen from the eyes of children? As imagination is their powerful tool, we proposed tosail in the students ́ sea of marvellous theories. In this journey, we showed them though gameswhat scientists already know. Framed around Brain Awareness Week 2018, an internationalcampaign to educate general public and to support brain investigation, a group of researcherscarried out the fourth edition of ?Neuroscience of Senses visits the classrooms of fourth grade?.This project, created and organised by Nicolás Unsain, was possible thanks to SAN financialsupport through its annual call for BAW projects. In addition, CCT-CONICET Córdoba and theMinistry of Science and Technology of Córdoba provided school contact, scheduling and transport.We visited 37 classrooms of 19 schools from Córdoba city and six nearby towns. Before the visit,teachers asked students to draw a neuroscientist, describe them and write questions they wouldlike to ask. In the visit, we displayed an interactive lecture mixed with exciting games. Studentsparticipated actively asking questions and discussing concepts acquired by their own experience.Finally, we took a microscopic sight of the brain with immunolabeled neurons and compared fixedcaw and rat brains; activities that allowed children to discover the role of brain.