Veja o verde: website como ferramenta em saídas de campo de botânica nas praças do município de Ponta Grossa, PR

Abstract

Despite being essential for the maintenance of life on the planet, plants are often little noticed by humans, their great diversity and importance being ignored. This lack of ability to perceive plants in their environment is called plant blindness. Education is an important tool to solve this problem, but for it to be effective, changes in traditional teaching methods must occur, exploring different didactic resources so that learning becomes more dynamic and exciting. The field trip is a widely used method, connecting the student with the outside of the classroom, being able to interact with the environment with all his senses and contextualizing what was learned at school. For the field trip to have its full potential, it is necessary that there are clear objectives for its realization and that good planning is carried out. Public squares are accessible places with great didactic potential often ignored by educators. Information and communication technologies (ICT) can be important allies on field trips, facilitating the acquisition of information, data, audio and vídeo recording, enriching the interaction with the environment. Considering the potential of the use of squares for teaching botany and the increasing use of ICT in our daily lives, we sought to develop a web application that could serve as a tool in carrying out field trips in squares in the city of Ponta Grossa, bringing information on how to use them as a teaching space and also listing and describing the tree species present in these areas. The Veja o Verde website aims to facilitate the development of field trip activities, with lists of QR-codes available for download that can be printed and fixed on trees in the city's squares, or accessed directly through the website. For the validation of the educational product created, three classes were held in a third-year High School class, one of which was a field activity in a public square. The instruments used for data collection were two questionnaires, one before and one after the classes, in addition to notes taken by the researcher. The results obtained showed that the students did not have much knowledge about the city squares, but that they had a good idea of the concepts of urban afforestation and native and exotic species. The field activity with the use of the site enabled the construction of new knowledge in relation to the squares and the diversity present there. In addition, a change in attitude was noticed on the part of the students who, previously uninterested in the subject, were motivated during and after the field activity. Thus, it was concluded that the site was useful in obtaining new knowledge and helped to overcome plant blindness.