El Laboratorio de biología como estrategia didáctica para potencializar el desarrollo de competencias científicas en los estudiantes de séptimo grado del Colegio Cooperativo Reyes Patria Sogamoso – Boyacá

Abstract

This research corresponds to a descriptive-interpretative research, with a qualitative approach base on action research, it belongs in the line of mediations and pedagogical practices of the Santo Tomás University, its general objective is to potentiate the scientific competences in the subject of biology of the seventh grade students of the Cooperativo Reyes Patria de Sogamoso School (Boyacá), through internships in the laboratory. The research compared two study populations, to one, the didactic strategy was applied and in the other,there was no intervention. In this way it was proved that the population intervened by the researcher, showed a better result in the potentialization of scientific competences in biology. Increasing the students’ interest in the content exposed in the theory and relating it to the experience in the biology laboratory, its application in daily life, seeking the construction and appropriation of new knowledge in the students, providing a contribution and enrichment to the pedagogical model of the institution.