Geoscience modelling in opens days to schools [Modelação em geociências nos dias abertos às escolas]

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2014

Authors

Moutinho, S (Author) Other; Moura, R (Author) FCUP; Clara Vasconcelos (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: Comunicações Geológicas

Vol. 101

Pages: 1325-1328

ISSN: 0873-948X

Publisher: LNEG - Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia

Indexing

Scopus - 4 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00N-4ED

Abstract (EN): Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto annually organizes the Open Days to Schools, which allow the contact of high school students with researchers from different scientific areas. By recognizing a high potential to modelling, which promotes the construction of students¿ knowledge through models that recreate geological phenomena, participants contacted with some models that simulated the effect of earthquakes on soils and buildings. We tried to understand if the use of models in the dissemination of Geology helps students to build their scientific knowledge, concerning seismology contents. A seismology model evaluation scale was applied to 126 high school students from schools of northern Portugal, which participated in the activities at Open Days to Schools. The results shown that students consider that models help to clarify and to restructure their knowledge about geological phenomena, highlighting the importance of modeling in the promotion of a meaningful learning. © 2014 LNEG - Laboratório Nacional de Geologia e Energia IP.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific