Our nature project: an experience report

• Main Authors: Júlia Schneider, Patrícia Maria Schubert Peres, Camila Klein, Denise Silvestrin, Maíra Longhinotti Felippe, Natanna Taynara Schütz, Bettieli Barboza da Silveira, Ariane Kuhnen
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2018-12-01
• Series: Extensio: Revista Eletrônica de Extensão
• Subjects: Brincar ao Ar Livre; Criança; Psicologia Ambiental
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/extensio/article/view/52965

This extension activity aimed to encourage the use of green leisure spaces by parents and children as a strategy for the promotion of health and well-being. From this purpose, the project worked in two fronts: realization of workshops in the Ecological Municipal Park Professor David Ferreira Lima (Florianópolis) and diffusion of information through Internet channels. The activities were carried out between April 2016 and March 2017 and involved 80 participants — including 41 children — in practical activities. The project also reached 5.648 people through the contents published in a social network and in the page of the Environmental Psychology Laboratory at UFSC. It is considered the project has achieved the objectives of awareness and dissemination of the theme about the benefits of natural environments for human development, interaction between people and connection with nature.