BLENDED LEARNING AS A MEDIATING TOOL: THE TRANSITION BETWEEN SCHOOL SCIENCE AND SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED IN THE SUBJECT OF NATURAL SCIENCE

The teaching of natural sciences for first graders with a basic primary school background, is the starting point for the comprehension of the elements that make up nature and the study of the phenomena that affect it; As such, it becomes necessary to bring science illustrated to students who are beginning their formative process, by means of technological mediating tools. This permits a permanent contact between the student and knowledge, feeding back knowledge of basic sciences through the implementation of multimedia as a blended learning means of support for the teaching of natural sciences, obtaining an improvement in the comprehension of the subject, highlighted by the fall in failure rates upon finishing the course (from 14% to 7%). It also achieves the understanding of abstract concepts by the implementation of ludic elements which transform knowledge, strengthening the cognitive abilities using a multimedia tool supported by the web, with a high graphic content close to the day to day experiences of the child.