Teaching Strategies to Enhance the Learning of Natural Sciences and Technology in primary education

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Identify the teaching strategies used in teaching Natural Sciences and Technology with students from first to sixth grade at the primary level. METHOD: The methodology used in this study includes a constructivist paradigm, qualitative approach, descriptive scope and phenomenological design for data collection. A sample of 11 Primary Education Teachers, 1 pre-primary teacher and 18 students were taken from the 4th grades, 5th and 6th, of the Official Urban Mixed School of San Rafael Pétzal, Huehuetenango, with whom 3 focus groups were carried out. RESULTS: fourth, fifth and sixth grade teachers consider that teaching strategies are resources, they are didactic means that allow the development of the programmatic contents of Natural Sciences and Technology, they use the following strategies to develop the various topics in the area of ​​Natural Sciences and Technology: mental maps, motivating questions, illustrations, concept maps, directed readings, images, brainstorming, narratives, group work. While 1st grade teachers. to 3rd. They use teaching strategies: directed readings, research, socialization, description of graphs, cutouts and puzzles. CONCLUSION: Teachers develop the teaching and learning process taking as a guide the teaching plan in which they write the competencies that are expected to be achieved and develop the planned activities, using methods, techniques, strategies and procedures selected to carry out the educational task.