A utilização da metodologia de investigação no ensino de botânica: superando limitações de formação

Abstract

The need for teaching methodologies that make the student seeks to relate the phenomena, facts, thoughts, should be structured so that it has a concrete thinking, able to understand and ask about the natural and social elements that are part of its history . Teachers are needed for this understanding bases, with the same large scale have a number of obstacles to overcome methodological and conceptual limitations of existing training in school life, making them resort to textbook teaching. Alternatively for Teaching Botany the research methodology proposed in this paper, was developed by two students of Biological Sciences Degree which attended the course of Teaching Methodology in Botany, Federal University of Lavras. The purpose of such discipline, was the creation of a differentiated for distancing elements of expository and uncritical methodology, questioning and seeking an understanding of the elements that surround the daily lives of students In later times it was applied to students in the discipline and students from the 7th year of elementary school of the City School Professor José Luiz de Mesquita, the Lavras-MG. With analysis and discussions on the assessments in both applications, the practice proved aggravator for teaching Botany directed to United Plant, where it is easy to insert into the school context, and a methodology is easy to apply and effective in building knowledge solidified in the daily lives of students.