The Unicamp Exploratory Science Museum, in partnership with the University's Institute of Geosciences (IG), begins on November 9th “Dinosaur Week: Deep Time and much more!”. The program, which runs until November 14th and is offered online, with workshops, live, round table and mini-course, is part of a crowdfunding campaign that aims to bring a large interactive exhibition to the capital of São Paulo in 2021, at Principia Institute.
During Dinosaur Week, concepts of Paleontology, Geology, History, Biology and other areas of knowledge will be covered in a didactic and playful way. To participate in the workshops, aimed at children and young people, prior registration is required..
For the mini-course, offered to elementary school teachers who wish to update themselves on the area of Paleontology, registration is also required. The live broadcast with the teacher Luiz Eduardo Anelli (IG/USP), one of the greatest experts on dinosaurs in Brazil, and the round table with researchers who organized the event will open, broadcast on Museum's YouTube channel. All activities are free and registration can be done at Exploratory Science Museum website.
Exhibition financing: find out how to help!
In addition to involving children, young people and teachers in creative and training activities, the Dinosaur Week program seeks to draw attention to the fundraising necessary to hold the interactive exhibition Tempo Profundo, scheduled to take place in 2021 in São Paulo. The crowdfunding campaign accepts individual or company donations. In the case of companies, due to the approval of the project by the Culture Incentive Law, tax deduction is possible through donations.
“We are working on building this new exhibition, Tempo Profundo, and we have found a space that will be a big difference [Instituto Principia]. The project was approved by the Rouanet Law and we are in the process of raising funds via companies and collective financing with the help of the population”, says the deputy coordinator of the Exploratory Science Museum, Paula Dornhofer Costa.
If the financing target is reached, the exhibition will feature, for example, life-size dinosaur models, as well as technological resources and greater interactivity. Find out more about donations and, to help with this project, click here.
Paleontologist and IG professor Carolina Zabini is the creator of the exhibition proposal and explains the idea of the project. “Deep time is one of the most important themes in the beginning of Geology as a science. We want to discuss the changes that the planet has undergone over time to, for example, discuss current climate changes by making this comparison. Talk about the evolution of life, the relationship with the evolution of planet Earth. We want to do this in a very interactive way and using a lot of technology, making people learn the content or enjoy geosciences and leaving the exhibition knowing something about this area”.
Check out the complete Dinosaur Week schedule
Monday, November 9, 17pm - Trapped in Ice Workshop
Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 16:30 pm - Workshop Prehistoric origamis and their stories
Wednesday, November 11, 17pm, History of a Fossil Workshop
Wednesday, 18:30 pm - Live Dinos from Brazil: incredible stories of our dinosaurs (Luiz Eduardo Anelli/USP)
Thursday, November 12th, 17pm - Pterodactylus papyrus Workshop - Are chickens dinosaurs?
Friday, November 13th, 17pm - Workshop Knowing the History of a Fossil: from word to mouth
Saturday, November 14th, from 8am to 12pm, Short Course on Films and Fossils: The Portrait of Cinematic Paleontology
The program is carried out jointly between the Museum and IG, with the engagement of students in the construction of the activities, which have continued with intensity since the beginning of the pandemic. According to the director of the Museum, professor André Santanché, since remote activities began, activities have continued intensely and led to expansion into other areas of Brazil, due to the online format. “We think that when the in-person activities end, we will continue to explore the idea of a virtual museum, which is rewarding,” he says.
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