Comic Book: COVID-19 - The invisible enemy
COVID-19 - O inimigo invisível
Abstract
Supervised Internship IV, mandatory at undergraduate level, is allowed in several areas of knowledge acording to the curricular structure from Biological Sciences course. The developmnent of this study took place in State School in a city in the northwest of São Paulo, in three steps: the production of the Comic Book, the observation and the teaching part. The Comic Book “COVID-19 - The Invisible Enemy”, which is about the virus SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19, its symptopms, ways of diagnosis and its reactions to the immune system. Furthermore, the reading of the Comic Book was done in group with the students in a more dynamic way to approach the structures, the biological processess and the organism reactions during a virus infection. Nowadays, with the COVID-19 pandemic, the spreading of false information on social media together with the students’ discouragement when it comes to learning about the thematics, due to the names and difficult biological processes and low comprehension of what this mandatory intracellular parasite is, makes the protection of the population - who does not understand about this subject - even more difficult. We consider that, by the end of the internship, the students will be able to understand more about the characteristics of a virus, its propagation, the reactions of the immuune system in an infection and the importance of immunization.