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Assessing risk situations and avoiding social and environmental impacts from science and technology is what underlies the precautionary approaches. To identify how academic productions in the science teaching area discuss the Precautionary Principle in education, we carried out a bibliographic survey in Brazilian and international journals in this area, which showed the existence of works that highlight its importance for training science students for citizenship. However, few papers deal with this theme or propose ways to insert it in teaching. When considering these aspects we aim to find ways for using the principle in decision making in situations involving scientific uncertainty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]