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Mora Rosales, José
Learning Natural Science Through Interactive Resources
Meaningful Learning of Natural Sciences Based on PBL
2025
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Becerra García, Eulalia
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Yánez Rueda, Hugo
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Mora Rosales, José
Learning Natural Sciences through interactive resources enhances the understanding of complex concepts by offering visual and hands-on experiences. These tools allow students to explore natural phenomena, perform simulated experiments and visualize processes invisible in real life. Objective: Examine how interactive tools influence the retention of complex natural science concepts. Methodology: It follows a positivist paradigm, with a quantitative approach, a field study and a sample of 60 elementary school students to whom a questionnaire was applied to measure knowledge before and after applying the interactive resources. Results: A course was created within the Moodle virtual learning environment focused on improving the learning of Natural Sciences with interactive resources elaborated in the technological tools: powtoon, Phet Interactive Simulations and H5p Interactive with selected topics of natural sciences based on their pedagogical relevance and the capacity of concepts to be exploited with interactive simulators. Conclusions: Interactive resources were developed to improve natural science learning, with technological tools that made the contents more interactive, visual and accessible.
2024
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Becerra García, Eulalia
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Erika Telenchana Perez
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Carina Arroba Naranjo
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Mora Rosales, José
Education requires going beyond educational approaches focused on the transmission and reception of knowledge, through actions that promote meaningful learning. Project-based learning (PBL) is presented as an active methodology to improve the teaching-learning process that allows not only to expand communication skills but also to encourage creativity and awareness for research in students. The objective of this research was to design a guide of didactic activities based on promoting learning through projects from the academic planning, execution and evaluation phases, in order to motivate students through cooperative work and research to solve contextual challenges or problems. Theoretical methods were used: historical analysis, analytical-synthetic, inductive – deductive and techniques such as surveys with questionnaires. This study’s population had 37 seventeen- years- old students from elementary education and 4 teachers from the area of natural sciences. The findings show that teachers face weaknesses related to the use of strategies; therefore, the need to design a guide that promotes PBL activities is necessary. It is evident that students can highly improve with the application of the mentioned guide.