The school garden as a pedagogical tool for the subject of Health Science and Environment in the Third Cycle of the School National Institute of Santa Ana

Abstract

Teaching Natural Science means a change in the didactic model to increase the traditional learning process in order to promote innovative activities that lead to experimentation and strengthening the relationship between theory and practice.
Based on the aforementioned, the objective of this research was to incorporate the Methodology of Project Based Learning (PBL) in the implementation of the school garden as a pedagogical resource and development of experimental practices in the subject of Natural Science in elementary school education.
The results were satisfactory since the acquisition of significant learning by the students was totally achieved, building knowledge through direct practice with nature for the contextualization and integration of the conceptual contents studied in class. In addition, student strengthened not only their scientific skills, but also their skills of teamwork, solidarity, commitment and service; interacting with their peers and applying interdisciplinary interactions as the main object in the process of know-how and knowing how to be in context.
The result was the proposal of a methodological guide in which it is made an emphasis on Natural Science to allow an integration of subjects such as, Mathematics, Language, Social Studies and English.
Indeed, it achieved the integration of subjects within the garden, leaving a precedent of educational innovation within a complex school, which houses a large student population of the Educational System of El Salvador.