Cartilha didática: caracterização de especies botânicas ocorrentes em um trecho de mata ciliar como ferramenta para o ensino de ecologia

Abstract

The use of alternative methodologies in teaching is of utmost importance by providing students with differentiated learning-facilitating experiences, favoring the development of skills and abilities by the students. The present work aimed to make a didactic booklet containing the characteristics of botanical specimens collected in a section of riparian forest of the Poti River, in the municipality of Juazeiro do Piauí, as a strategy for teaching ecology. For the production of the didactic primer, botanical specimens of a section of the regional flora were collected and identified. For the collection, a flow of preparation stages of the voucher specimens was employed. For the identification of the samples at the family taxonomic level, the book Systematic Botany was used, in addition to the specific literature for the species level. After obtaining this information, the creation of the didactic booklet where photographs of the specimens were selected, as information noted at the time of collection and as characteristics of families. The booklet consisted of 27 students, from the 3rd year of the João Alves de Macêdo Filho School School in an expository dialogue. The students' performance was observed from the content analysis, through a semi-open questionnaire. Through this observation, it was possible to assess a good resourcefulness regarding the assimilation of the content of ecology, besides a good development of the skills and abilities, such as recognition of phenomena and critical sense, to act in the environment in which they live. These results reinforce the importance of the production of teaching strategies.