MóviLab: An Educational Strategy to Promote Chemistry and Science among Schoolchildren and Teenagers in Far Rural Areas of Colombia

Abstract

to promote chemistry and science among schoolchildren and teenagers from far rural areas of the Santurbań moor in Colombia during the COVID-19 pandemic. The strategy consisted of designing a kit with chemistry experiments that could be done at home by the students. The kit was accompanied by a lab book and an easy-to-read manual where the basic principles and instructions for doing the experiments were described. Students were organized in hotbeds from each one of the participant schools to develop the activities in the educational kit and share their experiences and results with a scientific tutor and with their peers during periodical virtual meetings. Owing to this dynamic, students developed a feel for chemistry and scientific experimentation while improving their writing and oral communication skills.

La investigación como estrategia pedagógica: una alternativa latinoamericana a la educación STEAM

“…El impacto del programa no solo ha sido en términos de beneficiarios, sino también como referente de experiencias territoriales, es el caso de Investigadores por Naturaleza, programa de apropiación social de la ciencia en contextos educativos rurales del páramo de Santurbán, en Santander, Colombia, durante el período 2020-2022, que tómo como referencia elementos de la IEP (Correa-Delgado y Prado-Blanco, 2022;García-Sánchez et al, 2023;Prado-Blanco et al, 2021;Villarreal-Gómez et al, 2022). Además, se encuentra el programa Generación Conciencia, que lleva a cabo el programa Ondas y la IEP en Santander desde el año 2014 incluyendo a jóvenes investigadores y semilleros de investigación universitarios, llamando a este encuentro Comunidades del saber (Generación ConCiencia, s.f.…”