Didactics of Geosciences II

Recommended Prerequisites

Didactics of Geosciences I

Didactics of Biology I.

Teaching Methods

The teaching will be by transmission, inquiry and problem solving in order to have an active participation of the students in the teaching and learning processes. The lectures are designed to promote the critical analysis, creativity and concern with scientific rigour and quality of the oral and written communications.

The inquiry activities result in oral and written communications of the individual and group work.

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit aims to provide students with the competencies needed to teach the syllabus of Geosciences, particularly in Secondary Education.

The students should:

1. Know the concepts of the scientific contents of Geosciences of the Secondary Education;

2. Know how to apply the knowledge in Geosciences in the teaching and learning of specific syllabuses;

3. Know how to plan didactic units of Geosciences of the Secondary Education;

4. Build didactic materials and instruments adapted to the Geology syllabuses of the Secondary Education;

5. Know the principles of Geoethics.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Theoretical programme

Curricular organization and Geology syllabuses in Secondary Education – Scientific contents, strategies, didactic materials and instruments.

Scientific education and sustainable development in Geosciences.

Cultural, social, civic and ethical behaviour.

Geoethics.

Theoretical-Practical programme

Student and teacher textbooks of the Secondary Education: analysis, evaluation and use.

Selection and planning of teaching units/lectures of Geosciences of the Secondary Education.

Building didactic materials and instruments for the Geology scientific contents related with the selected didactic units/lectures.

Head Lecturer(s)

Joana Margarida dos Santos Simões Torres

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Portfolio: 20.0%
Synthesis work: 30.0%
oral presentations.The discussion of the written work can be done during the exam periods.: 30.0%

Bibliography

Almeida 2014. A geoética no currículo e na formação de professores. GEOlogos, 11, 35-40.

Cachapuz, Praia, Jorge 2000. Perspectivas de ensino das Ciências. Centro de Estudos de Educação em Ciência. Formação de professores–Ciências. Textos de Apoio. Porto: Centro de Estudos de Educação em Ciência

Grotzinger, Jordan 2010. Understanding Earth. New York: W.H. Freeman & Company

Miranda, Bahia (Org.) 2005. Psicologia da educação. Temas de desenvolvimento, aprendizagem e ensino. Lisboa: Relógio D’Água Editores.

Tarbuck, Lutgens, Tasa 2013. Earth: An introduction to physical Geology. New Jersey, USA: Prentice Hall

Tong (Ed) 2014. Geoscience Research and Outreach. Schools and Public Engagemen Netherlands: Springer.

Livros e revistas científicas de caráter metodológico e didático/Textbooks and methodological and didactic journals