SEMEANDO SUSTENTABILIDADE: POSSIBILIDADES E DESAFIOS NO ENSINO DE BOTÂNICA UTILIZANDO AS PLANTAS MEDICINAIS

Abstract

Medicinal plants are the oldest therapeutic forms used from antiquity to the present day, with their importance in natural medicine, in them we can find the aromas and herbal medicine widely used by the population, and varieties of chemical properties fundamental to the function can be found of healing and well-being, the aforementioned work aimed to make soaps, candles and repellents using natural essences of medicinal plants from the Amazon forest, enabling the relationship of procedures and techniques with subjects and concepts in the field of Botany, in the Agronomy course in the Institute of Education, Agriculture and Environment (IEAA) of the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), this research had an applied, bibliographical and descriptive research character, for data collection it started with the application of an open questionnaire with five questions for the previous one. students' knowledge of botany, after application of the questionnaires was expounded. Have expository classes followed by the application of the practical class in the biology laboratory for the making of repellent candles and soaps using natural essences of buriti (Mauritia flexuosa L.), açaí (Euterpe oleracea Mart.), citronela (Cymbopogon nardus (L.)), pitanga (Eugenia uniflora L.), maracujá (Passiflora edulis Sims), alecrim (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) e cupuaçu (Theobroma grandiflorum Willd. ex Spreng.) at the beginning, the students had difficulties on the subject, as they had little knowledge about botany, after the lectures and practical classes the research was quite satisfactory, because through this practice it was noted that it was possible to arouse curiosity and interest in botany making its popular knowledge more challenging in search of new knowledge, so this research was successfully completed with other teaching methods.