A atividade prática no ensino de botânica : uma proposta de ensino para a educação básica

Abstract

The absence of contextualisation of contents, scientific terms and teacher practice are some of the difficulties encountered in Botany teaching. The execution of practical activities is an essential factor in the teaching-learning process, as it helps the students to relate a theory and a practice. Faced with the problematic of the teaching-learning process, it is possible to observe that a current approach to the Botany curriculum lacks methodological strategies that aim at a fundamental education and a motivation. In this context, we sought the present study to develop practical practices, and from the same proportions other activities for contextualized teaching of botany for students of Basic Education. In order to base this proposal, the results obtained with the use of non-theoretical Botany teaching practices were summarized in the literature published in the National Botany Congress, Botany Teaching session. The methodological approach used for the survey and analysis of the abstracts for a description and bibliography, from a search without database of the Brazilian Society of Botany (SBB), in the teaching session. The application of the practical classes was carried out with a 2nd grade high school class in a state school of the public school system, in the city of Anápolis (GO). After an analysis of the selected abstracts and the results obtained with an application of the practical classes in place, a script of practical activities was elaborated that served as support to the teachers of the Basic Education, allowing the adoption of diverse didactic strategies and developed in room of -class. In general, abstracts and information on the use of different resources and teaching strategies addressed in practical practices for teaching Botany. In relation to the application of practical practices, the use of diversified plant samples that can allow groups that open possibilities, study the morphology and a function of plant organs, thus promoting effective teaching and learning. On the Roadmap for Practical Activities for Teaching Botany, what the material can help the teacher in his teaching practice, suggest a set of practical activities of low cost, that do not need the use of the laboratory. Thus, it is concluded that the activities are not botany teachings are very important, because they generate motivation in the students and contribute to a knowledge construction in the teaching-learning process.