O ensino de química e seminário integrado: valorizando a pesquisa do estudante a respeito dos saberes populares das plantas medicinais

Abstract

This work investigates the implementation of a teaching sequence and monitoring of learning of some chemical content using the theme medicinal plants and research in the classroom, developed within the curriculum components of Chemistry and Integrated Seminar. The use of medicinal plants has followed the evolution of human beings throughout history and this knowledge were transformed and passed on from generation to generation. What started probably empirically, today won the backing of science through research that seek their evidence and is recognized by the Ministry of Health. The theme enables value the popular knowledge of the students, which contributes to the construction of educational practice. Through the rescue and recovery of some popular knowledge in the classroom articulating in context and interdisciplinary way, approaching the teaching of chemistry with the reality of students, so that it ceases to be configured as an abstract knowledge. Within this design were developed activities to contribute to the learning of Chemistry and civic education of the students. The diversification of teaching strategies adopted favored the understanding of the content covered and representational language structures within the Organic Chemistry. With the analysis throughout this research can be seen on the part of students, an appropriation of concepts and related chemical terms, as well as some of the attitudes that shape new knowledge, showing the thematic contribution to the context of basic education, both in development of educational content and in search of the student, which gives it greater autonomy in the search for information.