Adaptações vegetacionais da caatinga à seca: concepções dos alunos de uma escola pública do município de Damião-PB.

Abstract

The Caatinga Biome located in the Brazilian semi-arid region is characterized by high temperatures and low rainfall, which conditions a flora with peculiar characteristics, and that developed adaptive strategies to survive adverse conditions. Considering the importance of the caatinga approach in biology teaching, the role of the school in the development of contextualized educational activities aimed at the knowledge of this biome is of paramount importance. In view of the above, the present work proposed to analyze the conceptions of students of a class of the 3rd year of high school of E.E.E.M. Francisco Marques de Melo, located in the city of Damião-PB, on Adaptations of vegetation from caatinga to drought, with the aim of favoring the collective construction of a meaningful learning. A qualitative and quantitative study was carried out, with descriptive character, whose construction and execution of the project occurred in five stages: 1) Visit to the school community, establishing contact for planning activities and scheduling of meetings; 2) Application of a pre-test questionnaire; 3) Conducting an informative talk; 4) Conducting a Practical Class; 5) Application of post-test questionnaire, and subsequent analysis of the data through the technique of content analysis described by Bardin (2009). The students, in general, know the flora of the place where they are inserted and their importance, whose information was mainly acquired in the school environment, but still is the knowledge about the adaptations of the vegetation to survive the arid conditions of the environment. After the pedagogical actions were carried out, a re-signification of the contents was observed, leading to a significant learning process. In this context, it is verified that the union between theory and practice, through the development of experimental activities, were fundamental for a better understanding of the adaptive strategies of the caatinga flora to survive the conditions of the semiarid, contributing to the improvement of the teaching process and learning.