LA DIDÁCTICA DE CIENCIAS NATURALES EN EL APRENDIZAJE DE LOS ESTUDIANTES DE EDUCACIÓN BÁSICA MEDIA EN LA ESCUELA FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSVELT, DEL CANTÓN PORTOVIEJO.

Abstract

The general objective of this research was to: Design a didactic guide to improve the learning of Natural Sciences in the students of Basic Basic Education at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt School in the canton of Portoviejo. for which a thorough bibliographic review of the two variables is carried out: Didactic, starting from their categories; defining according to several authors and with respective scientific, psychological and pedagogical basis, as well as the description of the characteristics; with respect to the dependent variable: Learning of Natural Sciences, it is part of what is to teach science, which has three dimensions: Theoretical, Procedural and Actitudinal, each of them has its meaning whose result is school science; The most important learning theory is also reviewed, authors such as Furman, Piaget, Vigostky, Ausubel Novak among others; focusing on the arguments of meaningful learning in Natural Sciences, arguing the role to be played in this important subject; the scientific methodology with its inductive and deductive methods was used for its study, which allowed to analyze the relationship between the didactics and the learning of the Natural Sciences that induced to verify the objectives proposed in the project, by means of the tabulation of the surveys applied to the teachers and students, interview and interview with the teacher, applied to the sample of the chosen population; concluding that the teachers of the school in question are not significantly prepared for the application of the Didactic in the learning of Natural Sciences, because, their levels of training are minimal, as well as a limited experience in didactic innovations in This subject, which leads teachers to continue applying the didactic models of the texts and books available, so a guide of didactic activities based on the learning circle is proposed.