Explorando o terrário como modelo experimental sustentável para o ensino de ciências e biologia

Abstract

This work consists of the need to develop materials that help students understand specific content related to Botany in a terrarium. For this reason, the objective was to build a terrarium as a proposal for a sustainable model aimed at teachers in the areas of Science and Biology. The construction of this terrarium in the classroom aims to help future teachers be trained to take teaching and practical materials into the classroom. The terrarium is an eco system model or mini ecosystem that makes it possible to observe the factors and cycles that occur in the environment. To carry out this proposal, an instruction manual was initially created for building this terrarium, for students and teachers to build in the classroom. We know how important it is to deal with botany in schools in a sustainable and accessible way, even more so with practical and tangible methodologies that help students to better understand the content. Workshops were later held with future teachers of Science and Biology subjects, and with students from basic education schools at the Botany and Nature Conservation Laboratory at the Federal Technological University of Paraná, Campus Ponta Grossa. The results obtained formalize the proposal of this project, since the training of future teachers and the insertion of practical teaching materials in teaching collaborate with methodologies in the classroom. Furthermore, the perception of the construction of this practical material makes its elaboration viable while expanding the methods that can be developed through practical and accessible activities.