Vocational schools are a resource
for many students, with usually low motivation
and high learning difficulties. The fact that this
type of teaching is of a more practical,
experimental, and job oriented type, points to
teaching strategies less theoretical and focus on
a more practical student involvement.
Profiting from those characteristics, the study
of the use of scientific projects on vocational
teaching was initiated. It was proposed to
vocational school students, high-school
equivalent students, the development of small
science projects in the subjects of physics and
chemistry with the final objective of being
presented.
The difficulty level of the science projects was
increased progressively, in a way to be correctly
adapted to this type of teaching. Learning gains
were evaluated trough questionnaires and tests
presented at different stages of the learning
process