Teaching: Understanding for Learning through Multiple Intelligences or Thinking Skills

The care and protection of the environment is crucial for humanity to survive despite all the damage that has been caused, often irreversibly. This is given not only by the educational institution but it is the task of The purpose of education is to achieve the integral formation of the human being. For their part, multiple intelligences develop with the idea that there is no single way to learn. The objective of this work is to establish the theoretical bases of learning by understanding through the use of multiple intelligences or thinking skills, analyzing the importance of the acquisition of integrative competences in students of the elementary and middle sublevel. The documentary research was based on the investigation of scientific theories, differentiation between knowing and knowing. For the execution, a qualitative approach is used in its design in parallel, contrasting descriptive data of a bibliographic nature, which allow to establish the importance of learning to understand by applying the project-based methodology. The results of the analysis of the theoretical-methodological foundations suggest that understanding learning promotes the application of knowledge.