O Ensino de botânica na prática de professores de ciências do ensino fundamental II no município de Salvaterra, Pará: uma proposta de intervenção utilizando trekking como estratégia metodológica para formação docente

Abstract

This study proposed to understand the difficulties that the teachers of Sciences are facing in the teaching of Botanics in elementary education II, having as a starting point a study directed to the municipality of Salvaterra (PA). The teaching of botany since the basic education has been marked by traditional courses, as they are still shown to be impacted by a technical teaching and that in a certain way still has its starting point occurring from the initial formation, having its culmination in the shortage of continued training to the teachers of Sciences and especially in the area of Botanics. The aim of this work was to investigate the difficulties that teachers of Sciences have in teaching the content correlated with the object-oriented learning within the thematic axes that involve knowledge on Botanics. Discussing the difficulties, however, without forgetting the importance of the use of alternative methods to promote a scientific education that aims at promoting an educational process in which the non-formal spaces are pointed out as a way of this teaching action learning can continue to develop from experience and experience in different locations, such as using the ecological trails, enabling a new walk within the teaching of Botanics. Semi-structured questionnaires were used to obtain data from individuals involved in the survey questions, made available online. The results show that the difficulties observed in teaching may be related to methods that need to be improved, in the areas of contextualization. This study aims to meet, at least in part, the need to investigate and based on the reflections arranged by the research and propose alternatives of elements that can serve as auxiliaries in the construction of methodologies that contribute to the improvement in the work carried out in the classroom for the teaching of Botanics for the final series of elementary education.