Didactic strategy to stimulate the learning of chemistry as an essential component of sports achievement

Abstract

The fundamental objective of the research is to recognize the value of chemistry in today's sports results. Chemistry and sport have strengthened links with the development of materials and technologies of all kinds whose application contributes to better practice and the achievement of better results. Among the fundamental antecedents of the subject are Lissavetzky (2011); Beltrán Llera, J. A. and Poveda Fernández M. (2020), they have made important contributions related to chemistry, sports and the fight against doping. However, a look to stimulate the learning of chemistry from sport is novel, exemplifying the possibility of modifying natural processes in the body. For the development of the research, methods such as inductive-deductive, analytical-synthetic, genetic, heuristic and logical deduction were used. As a result, a didactic strategy is proposed to stimulate the learning of chemistry, which, applied during the period of development of the subject Inorganic Chemistry II and Laboratory, at the Technical University "Luis Vargas Torres" in Esmeraldas, yielded important results. The proposal constitutes a novelty in the teaching of Natural Sciences in Physical Culture careers in higher education centers, and its application contributes to favoring the development of reflective learning in students.