Relato de experiência sobre a utilização de plantas medicinais como proposta pedagógica para o ensino de ciências em uma escola do campo

Abstract

The countryside is a territory with cultural, social, economic and environmental diversity and this diversity is an environment for the production of knowledge. In this context, the use of medicinal herbs is inserted. Therefore, working with science teaching in rural schools, using medicinal plants as a teaching tool, promotes the construction of a differentiated teaching, by valuing the traditional culture on the use of herbs, following guidelines guided by the Ministry of Education, for work with transversal themes, making students protagonists in the construction of knowledge. The work presents the results of an experience report developed with students of elementary school of a rural school located in Coração de Maria - Bahia. The methodological approach used medicinal plants and their biological actions in the human body as the main tool, in order to teach science in a practical and playful way through the use of games, manipulation of medicinal plants and visualization of specimens using microscopy. The methodology used allowed for greater interaction between teachers and students, as well as greater interest in the topics covered. It was possible to rescue traditional knowledge about the use of medicinal plants and the correlation of this popular knowledge with scientific one. It is concluded that it is possible to develop teaching and learning methodologies that are easily accessible, through the dialogue between popular and scientific knowledge in rural schools, as a tool to stimulate the construction of collective knowledge.