This #didactic activity proposes the students to discover the tectonic events occurred in an imaginary planet. Students are given several kind of evidences (Fossil distribution, Paleomagnetic data, Geodynamic events -volcanoes, seisms-, orogens...) from different ages, and must reconstruct the past geologic history through collaboration and scientific communication events reproducing those from the real scientific research. At the end of the activity, students generate a consensus model that is not contrasted with a “correct” answer, to keep the metaphor of science, where there is not a book of correct answers to test if we are correct.

1. Gondwana Tales:
an inquiry approach to plate tectonics
Jordi Domènech Casal
jdomen44@xtec.cat | @jdomenechca
INS Vilanova, Vilanova del Vallès.
Grup LIEC, Departament de Didàctica de les Matemàtiques i les Ciències
Experimentals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
This poster, the
didactic activity and
more informations
are available online at
http://bit.ly/1i3HEt5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FURTHER INFORMATION
This work has been developed in the frame of the LIEC group from the Department
of Didactics of Mathematics and Experimental Sciences from UAB, financed by
AGAUR (2009SGR1543) and the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (EDU-
2012-38022-C02-02). The author is grateful to the European Geosciences Union for
a GIFT grant conceeded to attend the EGU 2014 General Assembly.
#IBSE #Continental Drift #Stratigraphic Columns #Creation of Scientific Knowledge
#Guide fossils #Inquiry #Alfred Wegener #Plate Tectonics #Role Playing
Inquiry-
Based
Science
Education
● Giving priority to evidences
● Analyzing data in different
formats
● Constructing scientific
models to explain the
evidences
● Making hypothesis,
designing experiments
● Obtaining and
communicating conclusions
● Constructing Scientific
Knowledge socially
This #didactic activity proposes the students to discover the
tectonic events occurred in an imaginary planet.
Students are given several kind of evidences (Fossil
distribution, Paleomagnetic data, Geodynamic events
-volcanoes, seisms-, orogens...) from different ages, and
must reconstruct the past geologic history through
collaboration and scientific communication events
reproducing those from the real scientific research.
At the end of the activity, students generate a consensus
model that is not contrasted with a “correct” answer, to keep
the metaphor of science, where there is not a book of correct
answers to test if we are correct.
#linguistic didactic Scaffolding for inquiry
REFERENCES
● Writting articles and designing experiments: scaffolds for writting, thinking and
acting at the laboratory [Spanish]. Enseñanza de las Ciencias, número especial.
Congreso ENSE Ciencias (2013), 1085-1089. J. Domènech.
● Shaking the classroom: a seismic experience of collaboration between teachers
and science disseminators [Spanish]. Alambique, Didáctica de las Ciencias
Experimentales (2012) 72, 84-91. J.Domènech, J.Díaz.
● Scientific skills
● Understanding of the nature
of scientific knowledge
● Hability to transfer scientific
models and concepts to new
contexts