La enseñanza de las ciencias naturales en la educación básica

Abstract

The aims of teaching have evolved along with the society in which we live, from a memorial teaching to reaching one that teaches reasoning, in order to adapt to the accelerated rate of change imposed by the application of scientific discoveries in society. a society in continuous learning, which requires the ability to reason in order to adapt quickly. We are defining quality in teaching as your ability to teach reasoning. This requires developing evaluations and texts that induce reasoning. Respecting the themes of the texts of the SEP of 4th, 5th and 6th grade, changes in the presentations to children are suggested, which help the teacher so that the student understands and reasons the topics studied. Concepts on reflection, solubility, metabolism, pulleys, kaleidoscope and elasticity in in rubber bands are clarified. The teacher decides on each topic if he deduces it from previous knowledge or induces it from a demonstration or experimental data. The natural sciences are taught from the 4th year of Primary, and simple reasoning is required for children 10 to 12 years to understand them.