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Bees and Society: Native Biodiversity as a Strategy for Environmental Education Based on the Processes of Nature

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Enhancing Environmental Education Through Nature-Based Solutions

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The use of entomological collections in teaching is a way of awakening curiosity in students in relation to biodiversity and has a strong appeal in environmental education. Most of the time, however, the collections are merely demonstrative and do not involve the students in the search to identify the different organisms and their role in natural systems. Regarding the social perception that the student should develop in relation to insects, didactic materials need to go beyond identification and classification and involve the students in the relationship between the different insect species and eco-systemic services. The aversion that many insects cause in most individuals is, at times, an impediment to the teaching and learning process in Zoology in regard to Entomology. The proposal of activities that involve an approach based on bees, a species within the Insect class whose representation by society frames it as “friendly” species, is a strategy involving an approach in which the student perceives the social role of insects, in addition to learning about morphological characteristics, structural characteristics, and evolution etc. In this chapter, we shall address Entomology teaching strategies and methodologies involving bees, which could be applied to different groups of students at different levels of formal and non-formal environmental education.

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    Rosely Imbernon, Fabiana Pioker-Hara, Tiago Francoy, Elen Faht & Bianca Silva

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    Rosely Imbernon, Fabiana Pioker-Hara, Elen Faht & Bianca Silva

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Imbernon, R. et al. (2022). Bees and Society: Native Biodiversity as a Strategy for Environmental Education Based on the Processes of Nature. In: Vasconcelos, C., Calheiros, C.S.C. (eds) Enhancing Environmental Education Through Nature-Based Solutions. Integrated Science, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91843-9_13

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