The research entitled The Teaching of Botany: a proposal in the middle level courses
in the Environment of the IFAM / CMC seeks to contribute in the teaching of Botany, area
of the curricular component of the degree in Biological Sciences of the Federal Institute of
Education, Science and Technology of Amazonas ( IFAM). In this sense, the teaching of this
theme is an important and current thing for society, as one of the ways to understand the
environment that surrounds us. The problems raised by this research have their birth in the
general knowledge that the lack of resources and strategies in Botany teaching culminate in
overly theoretical, tiring and unattractive classes. Today's school needs students who are
trained to give their opinion in the world, understand the causes of phenomena on the planet
and recognize that many times these causes are made by humans interacting in the
environment. The references used in the research process sought to contribute to the
understanding about the need to create strategies for teaching the theme. Therefore, the
epistemological thinking necessary to the teaching of Sciences, the contribution of activities
in non-formal spaces in the teaching of Botany, the didactic modalities in the teaching of
Biology and in the practice of the teacher of the area were essential as well as to know the
challenges that coexist between The teaching of the subject in question and the secondary
education. As a methodological strategy, qualitative research traits were used, since among
other factors it is a research that aims to integrate people in the search for solutions to a
given problem, contextualizing in this way the practice where the beings of the research are
inserted. In accordance with this approach, the curricular matrix of the course was analyzed,
identifying in this document that the contents related to Botany did not have continuity in
the second and third module, leaving the entire subject to be presented in the first module.
This shows weakness of educational actions, since a great amount of information is
condensed in a single period. As a data collection instrument, questionnaires were used in
order to collect data referring to the contents of Botany treated in the medium level course in
the Environment. The objective was to elaborate a didactic sequence for the teaching of
Botany to be applied to the technical course on the Environment of IFAM as a way of
contributing to the teaching and learning process of this area. The application of said
sequence gave the students, greater interaction with the object of study in this case, the
plants of the Institute. The actions that followed allowed the plating of species for
identification purposes and the creation of a board and digital game under the title
"Vegetable Species at IFAM: a walk through our house."
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