Estrategia de enseñanza para la apropiación del conocimiento acerca de la importancia de la conservación de fauna endémica de Bogotá con población visitante del jardín botánico de Bogotá José celestino mutis

Abstract

Teaching strategies can be defined as the teacher's own methodologies, making use of activities, resources and pedagogical tools, to ensure that the topics and concepts are learned by the students. In the teaching of science, one of the solutions proposed is environmental education as a strategy that allows raising awareness about a friendly relationship between man and nature, thus forming generations that promote development and sustainability. That is why, one of the actions that have the greatest strength within environmental education is conservation, due to the environmental deterioration that has occurred over the last decades, since when people get involved in environmental and conservation issues, taking into account that it affects their environment, it inspires a significant connection with nature, ensuring a fundamental mitigation, so it must be a process that is built on convincing and logical arguments about the importance of each of the natural resources. In addition, it is important to generate new spaces for training and learning for people based on innovative and simple methods where they can participate out of their own interest.

Therefore, the objective of this work was to implement a teaching strategy for the appropriation of knowledge about the importance of the conservation of endemic fauna of Bogotá with the visiting population of the José Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden of Bogotá belonging to a child age range. The results obtained were organized according to the total correct answers for each session. In the diagnostic activity, three of the four groups obtained six correct answers, only the first group completed seven correct answers out of a total of eight. In the final activity, three groups obtained 100% of the correct answers and one group seven. In Stage 2 of the Diagnostic Activity, some of the children chose to write complete sentences such as “Taking care of animals and everyone”, “to protect animals” or even “taking care of plants”, signifying that they assume that conservation is protecting or caring mainly for animals or plants, a vision that is somewhat limited, only for a part of what makes up an ecosystem. In the final activity, the answers are much more complete, now with different factors that are considered within conservation biology. In conclusion, the design of a teaching strategy on the conservation of endemic fauna of Bogotá promotes curiosity and excitement in participants regarding nearby environmental issues, and also when implementing it with the child population visiting the JBBJCM, the interest of the participants in the proposed recreational activities and in the use of different living collections, as an unconventional space, was observed.