El juego de la cadena alimentaria: una estrategia activa para comprender la dinámica de los ecosistemas.

This article offers as a didactic resource for teaching ecology a dynamic activity based on a game and in contact with nature, implemented during initial teacher training. Data were collected on the affective and cognitive domains and it was found that, after intervention, teachers in training reported significant improvements both in their understanding of concepts related to ecology (food chains, population, community) and in their emotional component in the learning of natural sciences. The participants positively evaluated the use of the implemented methodology (Game-Based Learning), highlighting motivational, didactic and transference aspects for their future teaching work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]