Aplicação de uma Unidade Didática para o Ensino de Botânica.

Abstract

The Sciences teaching is advanced significantly in recent years and their research is often aimed at turned improvement the teaching and learning process of Sciences, although, in pedagogical practice, the reflexes of these researches are minimal. The search for the formation of a citizen with a critical sense, able to make decisions about issues in their daily lives linking Science topics have become more and more essential because they are increasingly present in students' daily lives. One of the themes of science teaching is Botany, which encompasses a wide variety of concepts, causing difficulties in understanding and approaching the students, mainly because teaching resorts to memorization, being presented in a decontextualized way and without due recognition. This research is justified by the fact that the best way to study plants is to bring the student closer to the theme, enabling them to view these living beings around them and to encourage critical thinking about the importance of Botany in their daily lives. The aim of this study went to build a didactic unit that enables scientific literacy and the acquisition of concepts in Botany for 7th grade students in a rural school in the municipality of Canguçu. The study will be of qualitative character, being the methodological approach used of the type pedagogical intervention, seeks the investigation through intervention, aiming at improving the teaching and learning process of the students. As an instrument for data collection, a didactic unit adapted for use in remote teaching due to the COVID 19 pandemic was developed. A Botany Booklet was produced that dealt with general characteristics and structure of plants, its ecological and social importance where the students performed the activities of the didactic unit. This booklet was delivered in printed form to the students. After careful review of the booklets that were returned by students at first few students knew about botany, many didn't even know what it was about. The booklets proved to be effective in remote teaching, stimulating creativity, critical sense, and the construction of botanical knowledge because the students showed conceptions that initially seemed to be unknown mainly about the ecological importance of plants. In the drawings requested during the activities the students were able to demonstrate progress in the conception of some concepts as well as in the comics they produced which showed the development of the students creativity and their perception of the social and ecological importance of plants. In the mini herbarium produced, the students made an approach to the plants bringing in characteristics that are often common sense. The educational product elaborated in this research is an e-book bringing the didactic unit that would be worked on face-to face and the didactic unit adapted to remote teaching.