El cuaderno de campo como eje del aprendizaje de naturaleza cercana en Educación Infantil

Abstract

There is a growing nature disconnection in society, which begins in childhood, more preocupant in cities. Education, starting in early childhood, should play a important role in reverse this disconection, using teaching-learning experiences and resources useful and tested, what less frequent in early ages. A didactic experience to increase close nature knowledge in the second cycle of Early Childhood Education is showed here. This experience is based on the search, observation, and classification of living beings in the vegetated schoolyard and scientific experimentation with natural elements, using as a learning axis field notebooks, an individual notebook filled by each student and a collaborative one by the full group. In the fieldnotes the students recorded observations mainly combining drawings, some words and dates, enhance scientific learning of the natural environment.