Insectos como modelo para el diseño de manualidades: estrategia pedagógica para evidenciar la importancia de ésta artropofauna en los ecosistemas (órdenes: coleóptera, himenóptera, lepidóptera, odonata y díptera)

Abstract

In today's environmental conditions, the need to create various ways of educating, teaching and informing about their care and the importance of those elements that help make conditions favorable becomes more evident. Insects play a very important role in bioecological cycles, they are the group with greater evolutionary success and have a high rate of abundance, diversity, a wide spectrum of habitats and functional positions, they play a key role in the fragmentation processes of the vegetation cover, in the nutrient cycles and in the diet of other organisms, the Growth rates and their microgeographic distribution can reflect conditions of heterogeneity at very fine scales of the habitat where other groups such as vertebrates can be insensitive, thus considering this group of arthropods as a tool for pedagogical use that can provide a large selection of contents in the teaching of Natural Sciences and Biology. According to Costa in 2015, insects may be the group of animals that best allows the teacher to offer their students opportunities to build concrete concepts with practical meanings in the daily lives of students due to their wide abundance and distribution. Therefore, handicrafts become an appropriate strategy in the teaching of insects and their conservation, since their elaboration is an orderly and previously planned process where creativity, inventiveness and knowledge learning are facilitated, thus providing resources didactic by teachers. With the aim of creating strategies for the teaching of insects, their importance and conservation, the Little Travelers Pre-childhood Program was accompanied in the environmental interpretation section, under the Educational and Cultural Subdirectorate of the José Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden. carried out with different manual techniques, several elements that interpreted aspects of the ecology and morphology of insects the orders coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Odonata and Diptera. Keywords Insects, crafts, strategy, teaching.