Roteiro educacional e trilhas botânicas : guia de ensino em botânica no Parque dos Cajueiros para o ensino fundamental

Abstract

The Parque dos Cajueiros, located in the capital Aracaju, has great educational potential with environmental resources to be explored in the area of botany, since the presence of a green area with representative plant biodiversity was analyzed. Taking into account the need to explore new methodologies of non-formal education in Non-Formal Spaces in Aracaju, this Park was chosen to be worked on in a didactic way in this research, since one of the determining factors for learning is the planning of coherent approaches both both theoretical and practical. Therefore, the general objective of the work was to elaborate educational itineraries so that the students of the final years of Elementary School go through the botanical trails present in the Parque dos Cajueiros. Such trails are intended to address educational issues, so that the local plant species are explored. The botanical trails were divided as follows: Trail of Fruit Plants; Trail of Monocots and Eudicots; Mangrove Trail; Palm Species Trail; Ornamental Species Trail. In view of this, a process of Georeferencing was organized, through the registration of the geographic coordinates of the place, and thus, through Google Maps, Croquis were elaborated, with markings of points to proceed with the access to each trail. From this, there was a previous survey of the species present in the urbanized area and in the mangrove area and a list of plants was prepared, with 52 species, for possible uses on the trails. Then, some of these species present in the park were photographed and a QR code (QR Code) was prepared, which will direct directly to the publication of the specific species and its characteristics, according to its trail. The result of the project was the creation of five trails for the observation of the species in an organized way and didactic itineraries were elaborated to approach the richness and importance of the plant resources available in the place.