Materiales educativos para trabajar conceptos sobre desarrollo sostenible en las aulas de educación secundaria

Abstract

We develop and show some educational materials with the main objective of developing competency teaching-learning processes in high school, making students citizens capable of understanding the context in which their lives take place. We also introduce learning about sustainable development in the curricula, and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in such processes, inorder to advance in the achievement of the didactic objective. In doing so, we have identified the following relevant contents: the depopulation processes in theAragónregion, the problems of the rural areas (available at "landscape, cultural heritage and depopulation"), and climate change and some related effects. The materials will be presented, describing their contents and learning tools in detail, and the data with which such materials have been prepared. Finally, we show the preliminary results found in a field-experiment in high-school classrooms, focusing on the circumstances in which this experiment was carried out. The main conclusion of his study is the need for a more consistent and objective experimentation process.