Biology teaching, over time, has been modified and updated concerning to the new
methodologies and technologies of teaching Science. With the advance of computing,
the computer promoted a series of changes not only on the robotics, medicine,
agriculture, but also on education. In this sense, several studies point to the use of
computer technologies to offer a diversity of new proceedings and resources of content
learning, beyond the exclusively theoretical approaches. The main objective of this
work was the development of a software as a tool of biology teaching, with a specific
focus on mycology, studied in the middle school as the Kingdom of Fungi. It belongs
to a wider chapter denominated Microbiology. The lack of connection between the
microbiology topics and the life routine turns the learning of this important theme to a
challenging task. It is necessary to develop strategies and technologies of teaching and
learning that helps the teacher to stimulate the students to get curious about
microorganisms and the possible relation of them to disease, food conservation,
biotechnological applications, and so on. Understanding the contribution that an
educational software can bring, a database software was developed as teaching resource
about fungi, macro- and microscopic images, morphologic characteristics and the main
properties of different genres, pathogenicity and/or biotechnological interests. The
software DIGITAL MYCOTECA was used with students of the first year of the high
school level of the Centro Educacional Santa Teresinha Analyzing the qualitative quantitative Questionnaires, initial (M1) and final (M2), answered by the students and
the application of the practical class realized in the software laboratory, it could be seen
that the proposed classes including the software DIGITAL MYCOTECA as a teaching
tool, contributed to the learning about the Fungi Kingdom. It was evidenced, according
to the students, that the classes were interesting and comprehensive. The results
indicated that the use of appropriate educational software, can contribute with the
teaching of mycology at the high school level.
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