History of Cuba

The research is developed from the need to strengthen the knowledge of Local History through the classes taught in the subject History of Cuba for fifth grade elementary school students. The diagnosis carried out allowed determining the general theoretical and methodological needs to strengthen the knowledge of Local History in fifth grade students. For this purpose the following research methods and techniques were used: historical-logical analytical-synthetic inductive-deductive systemic-structural and modeling. Empirical methods and techniques such as: survey interview observation review of normative documents pedagogical test bibliographical review and the experimental method (in its pre-experiment variant). From the statistical-mathematical level (percentage analysis and graphs). To satisfy the needs of the diagnosed knowledge of Local History the multimedia Knowing our locality is proposed it offers texts related to Local History conceived in two stages; primitive community and colony which integrates: images videos of the museum and personalities.