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The purpose of this research was to design a didactic unit on chemical solutions that promotes the intrinsic motivation of the tenth grade students of the Antonio Ricaurte Educational Institution of Planeta Rica Córdoba-Colombia in the learning of Natural Sciences, attending to the need to respond to the challenges in the training of students, which requires innovative, contextualized and active strategies from the teacher, which encourage them to carry out inquiry, comparison, analysis and reflections on what they learn. To do this, we worked from a mixed approach, with a methodological design that responded to projective research; supported by a documentary review to establish the criteria in the design of a didactic unit and semi-structured interviews with students. Based on the results of the documentary review and semi-structure interviews, the design of a didactic unit was carried out that allowed proposing concepts and contextualized and active activities to promote the intrinsic motivation of students in learning chemical solutions. The contribution of this work consists of designing a didactic unit as a strategy that promotes the intrinsic motivation of students in the learning of chemical solutions, allowing them to participate actively in the construction of their learning.

Internships are professional practicums carried out by university students, generally during the last years of the degree, to put into practice the knowledge and faculties learned in a real working context. Besides, the intern has the purpose of improving or solving a problem found in that context. My internship was developed in a program offered by the University of Cordoba, called Bilingualism for peace at la Ribera high school in Monteria, Cordoba. I was working with pre-intermediate level students. In this level the vast majority of students had difficulties in expressing themselves verbally (speaking skill). To improve this, I decided to base my teaching method on various pedagogies (PBL, culturally responsive pedagogy, and intrinsic motivation). Throughout this process, I grew as a teacher, and as a person; I realized how difficult and challenging is this job but, it is also rewarding to see students’ progress and how they got more interested in a subject.