La enseñanza de las enfermedades transmitidas por alimentos y el desarrollo del pensamiento crítico

This research article presents the development of a didactic sequence (DS) called “Uncares” that covered contents on Foodborne Diseases (FD) in a course of 4th year of secondary school in the province of Buenos Aires in the subject of Health and Adolescence. The research is part of an Ibero-American project on scientific education based on topics of Nature of Science and Technology (NOS&T) and the development of Critical Thinking (CT). A quasi-experimental pretest and posttest methodology was used using a control group and an experimental group, in which only the ds was applied in the latter. Among the results it was obtained that after the application of the sd, the experimental group showed significant improvements in relation to NOS&T, CT skills and disciplinary contents of FD.