Atividades teórico-práticas em botânica desenvolvidas em escola pública no município de Bananeiras, PB

Abstract

Botany is a branch of biology that studies plants. And teaching about plants should be present from the first grades of elementary school in order to show children the existing biodiversity on Earth (specifically, plants) and the important role that plants play in our lives. However, education in public schools still has strong characteristics of traditional teaching, that is, an education focused only on textbooks, blackboards, printed activities and the teacher in front of the students. Children are in the discovery phase and every type of resource that can be used to instigate their curiosity and learning is of great importance. In this context, the objective of this work is to describe the experience lived through the development of the Prolicen/2022 Project entitled “Botany as an instrument of environmental education”, with students from the 4th and 5th years of elementary school at the Municipal School Joaquim Florentino de Medeiros, in city of Bananeiras– PB. During the year 2022, theoretical-practical classes were developed on vegetative organs (root, stem and leaf) and reproductive organs (flower, fruit and seed). For each theme worked on, simple resources were used, such as botanical games and plant fragments (vegetative and/or reproductive parts), as well as plant structures made with cardboard boxes or E.V.A. students. It was perceptible to observe, in the course of this project at this school, how the use of certain resources generates significant gains in student learning, making them feel motivated and awakening more and more the desire to learn and also being able to pass on the acquired knowledge. forward. Botany teaching based on theoretical-practical classes is an efficient tool as a learning instrument. It enables the student's contact with practical elements of everyday life, making it possible to make a dynamic relationship between theory and practice. The class with didactic resources involves the students and enables a new vision that goes beyond the school, bringing knowledge to their families and respect for the environment.