Estratégias para o ensino de botânica no ensino fundamental: estudando os órgãos vegetativos das plantas

Abstract

Science teaching aims to educate citizens, to make the student know nature and himself, to realize that it is an integral part of the environment. During elementary school, botany is seen in the Natural Sciences discipline in 7th grade. In school, the teaching of botany is often not comprehensively worked by the teacher, so the student has a disinterest in botany due to its complex concepts. The research was conducted at Escola Estadual Dom João Marchesi, made with students belonging to two 7th grade classes. The objective is to teach classes using different strategies for the teaching of botany, with emphasis on the vegetative organs of the plants, besides presenting the importance of the vegetative organs, showing the diversity of the vegetative organs and evaluating the students' level of knowledge about the topic discussed above. and after the application of the classes. The research is qualitative. The students' previous knowledge was verified through a questionnaire, then four classes were conducted using different didactic strategies and lastly, to verify the learning, a questionnaire was applied with the students. Using different didactic strategies, it was possible to verify that the students had a good learning about the vegetative organs of the plants. Keywords: Botany teaching, didactic strategies, Elementary school.