La biodiversidad: una mirada de los niños de grado tercero de la Institución Educativa Distrital Manuela Ayala De Gaitán “caso: parque ecológico distrital humedal santa maría del lago”

Abstract

The concept of biodiversity is central to the teaching of the natural sciences, but it has been limited to a conceptual structure that is not based on the context of the school. This is why students are unaware of the diversity of living forms that surround them and the importance of ecosystems near them, such as wetlands, so they fail to establish care strategies. That is why this research seeks to contribute to the understanding of the 34 children of the 303 course, of the third grade of primary school, of the Manuela Ayala de Gaitán FDI on biodiversity present in the Santa María del Lago Wetland District Ecological Park within the framework of the Teaching for understanding, from two stages that include; 1. The recognition of previous ideas about the concept, and the design and implementation of a didactic unit framed in the Teaching for Understanding as the main focus, with activities focused on the three main attributes of biodiversity: Structure, Composition and Function and their knowledge about the wetland, and 2. It gathers as a synthesis product, the elaboration of a catalog with the illustrations and photographs taken by the students. In this way, students will be able to appropriate their territory and build critical opinions about the events in their environment. As a result, he realizes the learning obtained, organized in the levels of understanding (Naive, beginner, apprentice and teacher), product of on-site work in the wetland and the implementation of activities, in which the students had the possibility of contributing to their understanding of the knowledge acquired in the theoretical classes, with the reality of their environment.