Investigaciones escolares en ciencias: estrategia en la formación del profesorado y recurso para el aula Authors Teresa Lupión Cobos Rafael López Castilla Abstract Working hands-on activities in the secondary science classroom in order to contribute the development of competence in knowledge and interaction with the physical and natural world (hereinafter, scientific competence) and, from there, to the other basic skills of students is a high impact strategy in current teacher education programs, because it allows promoting the teachers competences and give valid teaching resources. This article describes and analyzes a training activity designed for these purposes in which practicing teachers participated in the province of Malaga. Downloads Text complet (Català) Published 2014-07-01 Issue No. 16 (2013) Section Intercanvi License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana de Química (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació Química.Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Química for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana de Química declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Educació Química is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.