Estrategias didácticas para generar prácticas conscientes de conservación de la avifauna, en los estudiantes de bachillerato de la Institución Educativa el Pórtico, Sede D, vereda Cantabara del municipio de Aratoca Santander

Abstract

This study had a qualitative approach based on action research by which different didactic and playful activities were designed and applied, as a strategy to create conscious practices of birdlife conservation in the high school students of the Educational Institution El Pórtico, Campus D, located in Cantabara village in the town of Aratoca, Santander. During the process, based on the pre knowledge of the students and their parents regarding birds and their biological function within ecosystems, the workshop was developed as a pedagogical and didactic strategy that consists in learning by doing, since this is participatory methodology between teacher and students, where teamwork and environmental awareness are encouraged in a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary way. With the aim of linking students to the knowledge and conservation of local birds, semi-structured surveys were carried out to identify pre-knowledge and daily attitudes towards birds. Also, tools for the recognition and identification of local birds were implemented: through the use of guidelines and activities of observation in the field and consolidation and conceptualization of ornithological terms, paper craft workshops with bird sculptures and the creation of a catalog with the species identified in the field. The development of these initiatives was done from a naturalistic and constructivist perspective, generating experiential learning to strengthen the ties between human beings and nature, and their influence on the conservation of birds as biological heritage of ecosystems.