The Portable Laboratory in Learning Chemistry

Abstract

Learning experimental sciences, especially chemistry, involves both theoretical and experimental components. Laboratory experimentation has become an ideal place to link theory and practice. Educational institutions, especially those located in rural areas, mostly lack laboratories and resources to create an environment that links theory with practice; therefore, the design and implementation of a Portable Laboratory as a didactic resource is essential. The objective of the present research was to design and implement a Portable Laboratory with a user's guide that includes experimental activities and evaluate the incidence of its use in the learning of students of the second year of General Unified High School of the Milton Reyes Educational Unit in the period September 2022 - July 2023. The research was quasi-experimental because of its applied and descriptive level. The population consisted of 48 students, where parallel "A" was intentionally selected as the control group and parallel "B" as the experimental group. At the end of the research, it was determined that the Portable Laboratory constituted an important resource for the learning of Chemistry in the students who formed the experimental group; therefore, the implementation of the Portable Laboratory has a positive influence evidenced in the academic performance.