Reconstruir el pasadoargumentación y uso de pruebas en problemas de geología

Abstract

In this workshop three tasks based on geology are presented. They have a twofold goal: on the one hand designing learning contexts that promote the use of evidence and argumentation, in order to contribute to scientific competency; on the other hand, improving students’ geology knowledge through tasks which intend to be motivating. Therefore, the three problems are made up of a set of data which students should interpret using their knowledge about sedimentology, stratigraphy and paleontology. The first problem, “Soria’s footprints”, consists in a set of footprints which must be interpreted by students, making hypothesis to explain what happened on them. In the second one, “Who were the protagonists of those footprints?”, students have to identify which two dinosaurs were the ones that originated the footprints. In the third one, “what is the real story of O Courel’s syncline?”, the students’ task is to write the geology story of this syncline