O uso dos insetos como ferramenta pedagógica para o ensino de ecologia a partir da visão etnobiológica

Abstract

Ethnobiology has been recognized over the years as an important piece for the development of scientific knowledge. Involving it in the teaching-learning process is a necessary task, but it needs to happen in a coherent way. Biology teaching has undergone innovations over time. Currently we see the emergence of new methodologies to facilitate learning, the most significant of which are aimed at its autonomy. Entomology, the science that studies insects, in this research, could be worked in a contextualized way with other contents, also essential for the Teaching of Ecology. The objective of the present work was to develop a digital didactic booklet, with an open license, containing instructions for the elaboration of didactic sequences built from the use of insects, through an ethnobiological vision, as a pedagogical tool for the construction of meaningful knowledge, of in order to insert the protagonism of learning by the method of investigative approach using ethnobiological surveys on insects in the region, giving impetus to the initiation and scientific research, carried out by the students. Through these data, students built hypotheses, which is an important process for the development of investigative teaching. The booklet, in addition to being objective, is the product of research. And this takes into account: the deconstruction of misconceptions, the notion that insects are always “plagues”; awareness for the preservation of these living beings; food chains and other content. This work was carried out in the only state school in Taquarana-Al, by students of the 2nd year of high school and had as evaluation a performance comparison between four classes, where two classes continued with traditional teaching, using only expository classes, while in the other classes classes were applied to the SD produced and developed in this research. Therefore, an alternative teaching strategy was presented, emphasizing the common background of the students' reality, making learning a more real process, through meaningful learning. The collected data pointed out a great difference in the learning of the classes in question. It was concluded that the use of insects as a teaching tool, through the ethnobiological view of the students, for the teaching of Ecology, had a commendable success.