Uso de mapas conceituais no Ensino de Biologia: ensino - aprendizagem de fungos.

Abstract

Science is exposed in all areas of life and are responsible for bringing about economic and cultural changes in the life of the human being. In this perspective, Biology appears as one of the most important disciplines in the school curriculum, to provide the student with the spirit of critical citizen and to be abreast of all natural phenomena. It is the purpose of education to promote meaningful learning of content in different academic areas. In any case, measuring the level of information of the students in order to provide a conceptual change in their cognitive, is not an easy job. Thinking about this, some authors recommend the use of conceptual maps for meaningful teaching. In view of the above, the work deals with an analysis of conceptual maps about a class taught by Fungi. The objective of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of conceptual maps in order to promote a meaningful learning in two classes of the second year of high school in a state school in the municipality of Nova Floresta-PB. To evaluate the map, pre and post questionnaires were applied. From the results it was observed that the conceptual maps help the contextualization in the teaching of Fungi, providing a more effective learning for Biology. Despite the traditionalism of microbiology teaching, many methods are able to bring students closer to their everyday life and at the same time enable them to learn from them.