Jardim sensorial como instrumento para o desenvolvimento de aulas práticas de botânica no Instituto Federal do Piauí, campus Valença

Abstract

This paper presents the proposal of execution of practical classes and implantation of a sensorial garden within the Instituto Federal de Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí (IFPI), campus Valença do Piauí, which aims to promote the teaching of botany in an outdoor space, through the application of practical and non-formal classes. The class of the third year of the technical course integrated to the medium in Environment was selected for participation. The executions of practices developed in the garden were made whenever possible, using native or exotic ornamental and medicinal plants, in order to stimulate the senses of sight, touch, taste, hearing and smell; reinforcing contents worked in the classroom, especially in relation to morphology, anatomy, taxonomy and plant physiology. The visit to the J.S. was carried out in guided tour mode, whose visit totaled three hours/class. The results showed that 27.71% of the students classified the class in the space as excellent 11.29% as good; None of the students rated the experience as bad. Among the themes that most aroused the interest of the students we have the use of plants with 11.29% of preference followed by the morphology of species in the J.S with 9.24%. With regard to the content evaluation of botany the theme where there was more discrepancy between the pre and post questionnaire was 6 correct answers and 32 errors, after the class in the sensory garden the same question the students hit 22 people and missed 16 people. The results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed methodology for the transmission of knowledge of botany topics and that the students were able to broaden their view on the importance of plants in relation to their use by the human species, as well as for their ecosystem functions.