O conhecimento de Botânica dos alunos em escolas do Ensino Médio no Município de Patos - PB.

Abstract

The need to examine to what extent the lessons of botany favor the construction of students knowledge and assimilate the contents of this area of the proposed biology curriculum for high school, has a long history in our country, since it is already possible to find reports the 3º National Congress of the Brazilian Botanical Society, in the 50, pointing to the need to improve teaching courses in this area at the time called secondary. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge level of students in 3º year high school School and Monsignor José Manuel Gomes Alves Vieira, both located in the city of Patos - PB on botany. The original sample at both schools were two classes of 3º year of high school. At School Monsignor Manuel Vieira specifically, the two classes that work in the morning. They were initially given four lectures and a practice for those classes. Closed this step was carried out a questionnaire containing questions related to content taught botany at 3 years of high school. After analyzing the data from the school José Gomes Alves concluded - that there was a difference in use between the two groups before and after school practice, and the level of knowledge of students in the class 3º A levels were average after the lecture and not enough after classroom practice. In this class the lecture method was the one that provided better performance on average. Since the class 3º B showed a good level of knowledge in both classroom practice and in theory, and practice in class there was a greater class participation. At school, Monsignor Manuel Vieira there – if the level of knowledge about the contents of botany taught in the 3º year of high school, students of classes 3º A and 3º B was very low, demonstrating the classes much disinterest in the subject, reporting some who preferred to lecture on sexuality, STDs, or issues facing the human body, particularly the reproductive system.