Elaboração de um Ebook para o ensino de Botânica com plantas de habitat

Abstract

In teaching Science and Biology, Botany is one of the areas that is more difficult to understand the topic. The factors that create this situation in basic education are many, but we can highlight the lack of interest by the students when it comes to study Botany, added to lack of practical classes and educational materials used to facilitate this learning. Despite the importance of different teaching methods in science, classes are still taught, most of the time, in a standardized way, fundamentally directed to summarize the contents of the formulas, definitions and exercises of the textbook. In this context, this research aims to improve the teaching of Botany in Dom Pedrito schools. creating an Ebook from histological slides as a production of alternative teaching resource. It is important to make the study of Biology more expressive and dynamic, in this regard the elaboration of didactic material formed from histological slides is important in this process, allowing contact with the real study object so the concepts become tangible and meaningful. The different plant habitats have different physical and chemical characteristics for each one, so the study of a plant derived from a terrestrial habitat, an air and water will allow us to address their structural characteristics and to relate it to their habitat. The water hyacinth, the gorse and orchid are characteristics of these habitat. After making the slides and the images, an Ebook was created showing the differences between the parenchyma, epidermis and stomata of plants. Thus, the practice of teaching science by investigative activities has assumed historically the prospect of bringing scientific activity for the teaching science, in a move to bring the scientific knowledge to school knowledge, it seeks to change the traditional model of teaching.