Principales métodos activos para la enseñanza de Ciencias Naturales en sexto de educación general básica

Abstract

The present research aims to demonstrate bibliographically the importance of active methods for meaningful learning of the Natural Sciences in the sixth year of Basic General Education. The methodology for the research was the bibliographic study, and aims to answer the following question, How to teach Natural Sciences from the Curriculum Update and Strengthening using active methods ?, which covers all the bibliographic research, which was necessary to understand how The teaching of the Natural Sciences can be improved starting from the use of an active methodology. The study demonstrates the importance of the Active Methods for the learning of the Natural Sciences within the process of teaching learning in the Basic General Education. The active methodologies such as: Problem-Based Learning works from the approach of a problem and the resolution of the problem, through the interests and needs of the students; Instead, with the methodology of Project-Based Learning, students work from some questions, look for information, organize it and arrive at a product in which they try to answer their questions; On the other hand we find the methodology of the Ecology Teaching in the Patio of the School, which seeks students to learn through observation, experimentation, information collection, finally the reflection and formulation of conclusions. In all methodologies students are active players in the training process seen from a constructivist perspective.