O papel da Feira de Ciências como estratégia motivadora para o ensino de Botânica na educação básica

ABSTRACT

(The role of the Science Fair as a motivating strategy for teaching Botany in basic education). Botany teaching is marked by numerous problems, among them is the lack of methodologies to generate motivation in students. Thus, it was offered to the students of the subjects of Botany in Biological Sciences degree at the Universidade Estadual do Ceará to prepare teaching materials to compose a science fair, with only botanical content. The objective was to evaluate this alternative strategy and conceptual map as motivating factors for teaching botany. The fair took place in a school of the public network of Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil, with participation of students from 9^th grade to 3^rd year of high school. After the fair, a questionnaire was applied to students. It was realized that teaching strategies as the science fair require a number of factors that enable it to occur successfully, including the availability of resources and the time for performing it. Therefore, it was verified that this teaching strategy is a valuable tool that arouses students’ interest for the subjects and it may serve to complement traditional exhibition methodology.

Keywords:
plant biology; teaching alternative methodology; teaching tools