Abstract
The Geo-School project offers digital didactic materials to teachers of basic education of a given region. The material in CD-ROM comprises geologic data, images and maps. Three pilot-modules were developed at the basic- and medium-levels of education (the Brazilian basic education) in the Sao Paulo State: Jundiai-Atibaia, Sao Jose do Rio Preto and Campinas. The research has been started from an inquiry to teachers of Sciences and Geography of public and private educational institutions about themes that should be emphazised in classroom. After the themes are prioritized the resulting interaction involves lectures, theoretical-practical courses and fieldwork. The enrolled teachers have demanded a broader professional qualifying because they have been challenged to approach some interdisciplinary concepts as the terrestrial dynamics, water cycle and rock cycle. The project also reveals that teaching of geology / geosciences should play an active role to help forming a culture of sustainability. Education should allow any individual to recognize what the planet is, how it functions and the way life relationships develop, both in time and space. In a broad sense, Geosciences (as the modern conception of Earth System Science) may help students to construct an idea on mechanisms of planetary evolution and on the permanent interaction between the Earth spheres. The use of computers in education may explore visual language, which is strongly connected to geologic reasoning, as well as some typical methodological procedures of Geology, as multiple explanatory hypotheses, scientific descriptions, historical and analogical reasoning. This requires more incentive towards teacher training programs. Many specialists of the national community of Geology are the most capable people to decode principal concepts from a great volume of available information. Promoting interaction with teachers seems to open promising opportunities for diffusion of Geosciences.
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