Botânica no cotidiano : experiências vivenciadas por alunos do ensino médio

Abstract

The Botany classes for high school involves numerous names structures and scientific names, and in general students are unaware of the importance of this knowledge. Through stories and lived experience in the classroom, there were ideas and proposals to attract students to the botany classes, in order to encourage learning demonstrating that this knowledge can be useful in everyday life. This study aimed to build and test different educational resources for high school botany lessons. For this there were three steps: a) research, through the analysis of questionnaires on the previous knowledge that students had in relation to plants found in their surroundings and in school; b) presentation of different teaching strategies that addressed the use of digital technologies used by students and c) development of an educational site for teachers and high school students. We were chosen to carry out this research a school public high school in the city of Garanhuns, Pernambuco. The participants were 90 students divided into five groups of the 2nd year of high school, which had as a teacher responsible for the content of Botany in 2012 for Master's responsible for this dissertation. In the first stage of qualitative and quantitative research applied a questionnaire with eight objective questions and two essay questions. In the second stage have been proposed three educational nature activities, which were also used by teachers and students from other years in Botany classes. The first was a game called, "A digital look at the plants inserted in our surroundings", where students researched and created a photographic exhibition of plants in the surroundings of the school. In the second they used cell phones and / or digital cameras to video production, reporting the main features of the most important crops in the students' daily lives. For the third activity, it was used as a pedagogical proposal for Botany classes in high school an oral game called "Biosoletrando", which consisted of students spell out the letters of the scientific names of plants and inform some features of it, such as origin and flowering season. In the last stage of the work was produced a website, available at the website www.abordandoapercepcaobotanica.webnode.com. This website have been included the successful activities carried out by high school teachers in Botany classes, in addition to providing useful information and links to this discipline. The actions presented here were considered viable for use by Botany teachers, since students come to understand and appreciate the importance of plants present in everyday life and at school, through the registration of images, video production and participation in game . Based on these data it was possible to demonstrate that the appropriate use of educational resources in the School of Botany classes enriched the knowledge of themes, bringing together educational practices, with the participation of students, and encourage recognition of the plants found in the vicinity of school, from leaving home until the arrival to the classroom.