Teaching science in context for health career students through entertaining experiments

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1593892323102

• Palavras-chave: Enseñanza de la ciencia, ciencia en contexto, química cotidiana, estudiantes de ciencias de la salud.

• Keywords: Science teaching, science in context, everyday chemistry, health sciences students.

• Abstract:

  This article reports the results of the educational innovation project “Science Learning in an Everyday Context”, which addresses the problem of the perception of science in Health Sciences students, through innovative experiments that They put science in an everyday context for the student. The initial data indicate that the incorporation of activities with everyday products increases interest and improves the students' perception of science, who recognize the integration of various disciplines in this type of practices. Additionally, the transfer of these results to a formal subject in the curriculum of the nutrition and dietetics career of a Chilean university is reported.