A pesquisa como instrumento pedagógico: plantas tóxicas de interesse pecuário, no campus Cacoal - IFRO

Abstract

The study on toxic plants is increasing annually in Brazil and in the world, with these plants, a major cause of mortality in ruminants in Brazil. Increasing interest and knowledge on the subject, as well as causing direct damage to animals, can also be harmful to human health. Upon this, the work was developed with the goal of using research as a teaching tool for students in technical courses in agriculture, the Federal Institute of Science and Technology Education in Rondonia, Campus Cacoal. The research can be understood as a process of discovery of facts that objectively contact with unknown or little known realities, revealing its characteristics and peculiarities. And it is through this tool we can work the process of teaching and learning more efficiently, with a facilitative tool in understanding the content process. For the student this work can be considered as a complement your training tool, by the need for continuous improvement and the search for new knowledge, contributing effectively in their academic and social training, professional. The techniques and instruments used in this study were developed from the questionnaires for the final and initial screening process, seminars, photographic plants diagnosed the field records. From the result of the record, an illustrative catalog with the main poisonous plants of livestock, existing interest in research was developed, this material will serve as a source of information for research on the subject. The final stage was the evaluation of the teaching-learning process with participants, confirming that knowledge is increasingly the engine of society. Strengthening the importance of conducting research as a training tool.