In some countries, the human rights involving a proper education are still a privilege for just a few. In some of these regions, the right for a living with dignity and access to the current knowledge is considered a luxury, especially for people with special needs (e.g. deaf children) as the governmental systems still struggle to provide proper conditions to the regular ones. Herein we showed a brief review on deafness, its history on Brazilian education, the Brazilian sign language and the current need of deaf people for teaching resources at the scholar context to. We have also discussed facts that contributed to the Brazilian deaf education and alternative methodologies for the generation of educational resources that can maximize the teaching-learning process by stimulating the interest of deaf students for the science and biotechnological context. The inclusive educational practice with development of proper educational materials and methods may facilitate the teaching and learning process for everyone, including those with hearing loss. This inclusive practice is of great importance for achieving the educational improvement of all people in any society as a whole. Therefore, this article revisited themes that must be considered in the education of people with special hearing needs to guarantee their right of having a proper education and attention.

The teaching of mathematics involves logical and abstract reasoning that is often associated with belief, prejudices and difficulties. Therefore, students can develop an aversion to this science. This scenario may be even more complex when it involves blind students. However, creative didactic and pedagogical practices can help to deconstruct such adversities. The aim of the study was to test if eight workshops that were carried out the making four origami pieces (a small Box at it covers, a Rabbit face, and a "Bandeirinha de São João"-small flag of St. John party) could promote the construction of knowledge about geometry in 14 blind students. These students from the sixth to ninth year of elementary school are regularly enrolled of Benjamin Constant Institute, RJ, Brazil, and intend the after class. Eight workshops with 100 minutes each were conducted in September and October 2015 (n = 4) and in March and April 2016 (n = 4). Among eight paper types offered for students to make origami the kinds, we identified that the papers denominated waxed and sulfite were those who favored the realization of folds while Kraft one facilitated favored the discovery of the folds. On average, the questions concerning the geometric shapes and their elements obtained by the origami were answered correctly by eight students both for making the Box and its cover; as for the Rabbit face, and by ten students for making of small flag of St. John party. These results demonstrated the effectiveness of origami to teaching math to teenagers blind students.

Is it possible to promote the construction of knowledge about phenotypic plasticity expressed by plants among elementary school students?" To answer this question, it was proposed to carry out experiments together with second year students of elementary school using the plant popularly known as Boldo Mirim (Plectranthus neochilus Schlechter). The objective of present study was to describe the results of the experiment performed on cuttings of Boldo Mirim raised in two types of soil [plant compost + poultry manure (3:1) or earthworm humus + bovine manure (1:1)], two types of light source (20 W lamp or sunshine) at four intensity (10%, 30%, 50%, or 100%). This experiment was attended by 21 children with ages ranging from 10 incomplete years to 10 years old. The positive experimental results showed how the light source and the nutritional richness of the soil are important determinants of plant survival and growth. The negative results involving absence of root development in plants under artificial lighting (20 W lamp) instigated the children to elaborate a hypothesis to be tested explaining this. The children's drawings made after the planting and at the end of the experiments plus the answers obtained during group discussions revealed that they were able to build knowledge about the ability of plants to respond to environmental variables such as soil type and sunshine intensity, expressing phenotypic plasticity.

The virtual world of the internet is increasingly present in society. However the accessibility to this world is not fully guaranteed in an inclusive way for those with special needs. In this study, we investigated the presence of accessibility tools considered of less complexity (increase of text font, navigation shortcuts and high contrast) in homepages of 97 Brazilian Educational Institutions including 38 Federal Institutes of Vocational Education, Science and Technology which were specialized in technical formation and 59 Federal Universities. The results of the Federal Institutes revealed that 12 of the 38 sites had none of the tools evaluated, which might hinder or prevent the access of those with special needs. The analysis also revealed the increase of text font as the tool with the highest incidence in the evaluated sites (26 of 38 sites). The universities analysis showed that 41 of the 59 sites evaluated did not have any of the tools analyzed and only the Federal University of Ceará showed all evaluated tools. According to our overall analysis, this is a global issue in several educational institutions who ignore the right of the people with special needs to access this educational virtual world. This lack of access may hugely compromise this people's life in a longer perspective so they should be remembered by those who have the control of these virtual environments. People with special needs may have a full and complete life, including in the virtual * Corresponding author. C. G. de Freitas et al. 2022 world of internet, if conditions of accessibility are offered and this is mandatory for educational institutions like those evaluated in this study.

The analyses efficacy of a practical activity addressing the measure of morphological characteristics of Boldo Mirim (Miniature Boldo), (Plectranthus neochilus Schltr.) which were cultivated in two conditions of solar intensity (50% and 100%), involved two professors and 7 students who participated at different ways in planning, performing and evaluating the results. This activity was carried out in 49 students matriculated in the discipline Botany II of 1st semester of the Biological Sciences course of UFF. The objective of the present study was to foment the construction of a significant learning about concept of specie and phenotypic plasticity. To perform the measurements on the leaves: 1) the foliar areas by two methods (weigh and counting); 2) the internode distance; and 3) the presence of trichome, two types of papers (baking and millimetric) and basic equipment such as manual calibration caliper (mm), precision analytical balance (0.001 g) and a monocular stereoscope (40×) were provided. It was verified that with the reduction in the availability of solar light, the Boldo Mirim increases its leaf area and the distance internodes for the best use of the luminosity in the photosynthetic process, whereas in conditions of full sunshine this plant invests less in leaf area and reduces the distance between leaves that are practically superimposed to avoid stress due to excess of light. After following the proposed protocol, the questionnaire with 12 questions about the plant's characteristics, the concepts of Creative Education species and of phenotypic plasticity, and the effectiveness of the practical activity were applied to the 14 groups of 3 to 4 students from the total of 49 ones. The correlation coefficients obtained from the comparison of the two methods used to measure the foliar area (weight and counting) was positive and significant for Branch type 1 (from plant raised at 100% of solar intensity: r = 0.806, n = 10; p ≤ 0.005) and for Branch type 2 (from plant raised at 50% of solar intensity: r = 0.755, n = 10; p ≤ 0.005) as well. These results revealed that the proposal of the practice reached its goals. However, the critics of the 49 target students fell mainly on the restriction of the available time to the practical activity. In conclusion, the activity involvement revealed that the practical activity achieved its purpose. Thus, all the 56 students involved were able to construct the knowledge about the scientific methods, the concepts of species and phenotypic plasticity, and the therapeutic applicability of the Mirim Boldo, within a critical vision of the teaching-learning process.