Análisis de las actividades propuestas en el texto oficial de Ciencias Naturales de cuarto año de educación básica

Abstract

Nowadays, the school texts present a great value in the classrooms, moreover they are considered as the main resource to study the several topics that teacher gives. The field of study for investigation is the Didactic of Science classes, therefore, it has analyzed the learning activities and the sequence proposed in the school texts, specifically in the area of science. For this reason, the general objective of investigation was to analyze the relevance of learning activities which are present in the scholar text of science of fourth year of basic education from the Ministry of Education. The specific objectives were to identify the learning activities, the sequence and to determine the perception of teachers about the activities and its sequence. To fulfill the goals were performed semi-structured interviews to ten teachers, men and women from a public school from the city of Cuenca, it was applied a guide of analysis to the learning activities and its sequence. The data was processed through thematic analysis. The results allowed it to know that the activities which are present in the scholar text are appropriate to the students’ age, and they give interesting content with pictures, maps, etc. Additionally, the sequence is presented in a clear way and it is used by some teachers to perform their classes. However, some activities were found which just stimulate copying the concepts while few activities give students the opportunity to reflect on, also, the activities of searching are complex.