Exsicatas como ferramenta metodológica objetivando a minimização da cegueira botânica: uma proposta de sequência didática para o ensino médio

Abstract

In the educational field, the branch of botany does not arouse the same interest on the part of students when compared to other areas of biological sciences, thus emerging “botanical blindness” (BC), which makes teaching and learning increasingly challenging. Based on this principle, this work aimed to develop a proposal for a didactic sequence using specimens as a methodological tool, in order to minimize botanical blindness in high school students. Based on qualitative bibliographical research, it was possible to meet the perspectives of teaching through a didactic sequence (SD) in the elaboration of the proposal. As a result, the DS was carried out for practice in the second year of high school, based on the manufacture of specimens of native vegetation, uniting teaching and practice. It also demonstrates that the use of SD as a teaching model is efficient in the teaching and learning of botany, as it brings the student closer to the plant in a real, technical and scientific way.