Plantas Medicinais na escola: Uma revisão

Abstract

The present work is about a bibliographic review of scientific articles about medicinal plants at school which aimed to evaluate scientific articles published in Brazil in relation to the target audience of the surveys and how the subject is approach in schools. As a source data for the analyzes, were used scientific articles published in Brazil between 2008 and 2018, in online environment with furtherance of google scholar, scopus and portal de periódicos of CAPES. The keywords used in the search were "ethnobotany in school", "ethnobotany in high school", "ethnobotany in elementary school", "medicinal garden in school", "medicinal plants in school" and "medicinal plants and environmental education". 23 articles were selected, it was found that most of them were carried out with primary school students. On the form of approach performed there were three main, ethnobotany, medicinal gardens and environmental education. Most of the articles use typical methodologies of ethnobotany as a strategy to work on the topic of medicinal plants in school. With this study it was possible to verify that the theme medicinal plants can be used as an effective tool in science and biology classes in various forms, it is up to the professor to seek the best way to insert them in the context of their classroom, especially in botany and environmental education classes, where they constitute an effective method to awakan students interest and participation.