Ensino de botânica: um guia didático como contribuição à formação da concepção ambiental para licenciandos de ciências biológicas

Abstract

The teaching of botany is a fundamental tool to strengthen awareness of the use, management and conservation. The development of teaching activities in Spaces Non-Formal (ENFs) Amazon can provide significant learning processes for teaching botany, valuing biodiversity of regional plants and thus contributing to the formation of an environmental design. The research in this chapter aimed to diagnose through PPC, questionnaire to teachers and students, the perception of botanical relationship and environment in the construction of environmental design. The study was conducted at the Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of the Amazon / IFAM through interviews with 49 students from the 2nd, 6th and 8th periods of Morphology disciplines of Superior Plant and Superior Plant Physiology, and 04 teachers, target the course of Biological Sciences Degree, checking botany and environmental design and the methods used by teachers for teaching botany. Later, there was an intervention by activity developed in ENFs. Research has indicated that the botanical knowledge developed in ENFs stimulate learning differently in the traditional way, demystifying the botany as difficult to understand as well as raise environmental design as a tool for maintaining balanced environment.