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- Title
The "unknown" Greek Paleoenvironment: Curriculum Proposals through an Infusion Model for Elementary School, Using Ammonite Fossils.
- Authors
FRAGOULI, Stiliani; ROKKA, Aggeliki
- Abstract
In this study we introduce an infusion model to "inject" ammonites and ammonite fossils in current subjects of Greek primary curriculum. Paleontology and mainly fossils attract more and more elementary students and teachers, yet in Greece this trend is solely about dinosaurs, despite the fact that the most common Greek fossils are not dinosaurs, but ammonites. Ammonites can be found in large population and diversity inside Greek rocks, as these rocks were part of Tethys? seafloor at their geological time. Apart from the informal sources of education, these science topics are excluded from elementary national curriculum, and leave the regional paleoenvironment and geological history practically "unknown" to students. Data collected through a pre-test study, in 558 students of 4th, 5th, and 6th grade confirmed the above belief. A post-test at the original sample, using an open ended questionnaire and students' drawings, evaluated positively the infusion teaching model, whose core were the ammonite fossils.
- Subjects
GREECE; EARTH sciences; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL studies; ELEMENTARY schools; AMMONOIDEA; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY; TEACHERS; GREEK students
- Publication
International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2017, Vol 9, Issue 4, p753
- ISSN
1307-9298
- Publication type
Article