"SCRIPT FOR IMPLEMENTING A SYNTROPIC VEGETABLE GARDEN FOR BOTANY TEACHING."
Teaching of Botany; Syntropic Agriculture; Agroecology
Botany is the science that studies plants. However, despite the importance of these photosynthetic beings for life on Earth, it is considered a monotonous area of Biology that does not arouse due interest in most Basic Education students. With the aim of making the teaching of plants more attractive and better contextualized for 2nd year high school students, we will develop a script for implementing a Syntropic Vegetable Garden based on the principles of the Agroforestry System (AFS) for learning Botany. AFS are forms of cultivation that seek to reproduce natural ecosystems through the planting of different species, imitating the natural processes of succession and ecological stratification. In this system, we will associate agricultural crops, such as herbs, medicinal plants and vegetables, shrubs, fruitful tree species and those native to the Cerrado, which can be used to restore an unproductive area at the school, produce food in an ecological way and enrich the classes of Botany. In this environment, it will be possible to teach evolutionary characteristics, morphology and physiology of plants, which will be inserted in its ecosystem, in addition to valuing the Cerrado biome.