Presentation for the 1º Palaeontologial Vitural Congress

1. DISSEMINATING
PALAEONTOLOGYIN SCHOOLS OF BRAZIL: EXPERIENCES AND DISCUSSIONS
Dhiego Cunha da Silva*, Cristina Silveira Vega, Robson Tadeu Bolzon,
Jennyfer Pontes Carvalho Pietsch, Malton Carvalho Fraga, Raíssa
Cristina Oliveira Fontanelli, Francine Kurzawe, Adelita Carolina
Rodrigues, Victor Amir Cardoso Dorneles.

2. CRISTINAVEGA MALTON FRAGA
ADELITA
RODRIGUES
DHIEGO CUNHA
ROBSON
BOLZON
RAÍSSA
FONTANELLI
JENNYFER
CARVALHO
LABPALEO
(LABORATORY OF PALEONTOLGY
OUR TEAM
COORDINATOR
COORDINATOR
STUDENT
STUDENT
STUDENT
STUDENT
STUDENT

3. ▪ The main objective is to make palaeontology accessible to
students and teachers of early childhood, elementary, and high
school education, and to the broader community
MAIN GOAL

4. WHAT IS
A
FOSSIL
HOW DO WE
DATE FOSSIL?
HOW
FOSSILIZATION WORKS?
GEOLOGICAL TIME
FOSSIL
IDENTIFICATION
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS
The main concepts worked with the students were the following themes

5. DIFFERENT APPROACHES
This is the most common way to work. The schools invite us and
we go with materials to develop the activities.
We work with to different approaches, most of the times we go to schools and develop
the activities and other moments the school came to us.
Mainly because the transportations of the kids, schools hardly
come to the Lab to develop the actions.

6. ▪
We worked with slides presentations (talks), fossils, fossil replicas
and board games. We also wear palaeontologist clothing (hat, vest,
jacket, boots), and we demonstrated field tools and laboratory
equipment.
HOW DO WE PRESENT
PALEOTOLOGY?

7. TALKS AND SLIDE PRESENTATION

8. TALNKS AND SLIDE PRESENTATION
We always try to induce and ask about previous knowledge

9. PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES

10. PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES

11. HOW MUCH HAVE WE
ACHIEVED SO FAR?
▪ Total of 15 schools attended in the first tree 9 mouths, until the
ends of the year we excpt much more
▪ About 1000 participants, between students and teachers

12. WHAT THE STUDENTS WERE
MORE CURIOUS ABOUT?
d
ike reconstruct a lego
a
ich d
is a

13. WHAT DID WE NOTICED?
▪ The prior knowledge level was
variable within kids of the same age
▪ They main references were movies,
like Jurrasic Park and Ice age

14. ▪ Palaeontology is not well explored in Primary Education
▪ Practical activities, fossils and replicas are appropriate tools in
disseminating scientific concepts about Palaeontology
▪ This actions contribut to the students formation
CONCLUSIONS
▪ Activities developed for this project will assist educators in creating
new practices in science education, as well as strengthen
partnerships between universities and schools.

15. This project is a colaboration of Federal University of Paraná, Palaeontology
Laboratory of University of Paraná, and Curitiba City Hall

16. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS