Teaching chemistry in the new curriculum through the socioscientific issue on the use of plastics

Authors

  • María del Mar López-Fernández Universidad de Málaga. Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales
  • Antonio Joaquín Franco-Mariscal Universidad de Málaga. Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales
  • Ángel Blanco-López Universidad de Málaga. Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales

  • DOI: 10.2436/20.2003.02.238

Keywords:

socioscientific issues, plastics, LOMLOE, specific competences

Abstract

With the current Spanish educational law, new challenges arise when teaching chemistry in secondary school. Socioscientific controversies, such as plastic pollution, provide relevant learning situations to promote the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes towards and about chemistry that allow students to develop with criteria in a world in continuous scientific, technological, economic and social development. This paper proposes activities such as an inquiry about the degradation of plastics, debates on the banning of single-use plastics or the creation of audio stories as a final product, to develop the different specific competences.

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Published

2023-10-18

Issue

No. 31 (2022)

Section

Química, educació ambiental...

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