04/11/21

The Doing Science project is an initiative of the Vale Foundation, in partnership with the Educational Community (Cedac) and complementary investments from the company DHHI. It aims to reflect new ways of teaching and learning Science and Mathematics in the municipal school system of Itabira (MG), allowing students to be protagonists of their learning and to discover pleasure throughout this process, by giving Science and Mathematics a real meaning. 

To achieve this goal, the project provides for the systematic training of elementary school teachers and other professionals, such as the staff of the Municipal Department of Education, school managers, and pedagogical coordinators. Besides the educators’ training, it is equally important that the students have access to situations and materials so that they can investigate, think, and systematize new knowledge. In this way, the project also provides content and materials so that schools can develop activities with the students on real problem situations in the areas of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.