Coleta paleontológica para pesquisa e elaboração de jogo lúdico : alternativa metodológica para o ensino da paleontologia nas escolas

Abstract

The study of Paleontology is recommended for Brazilian basic education, however, the themes listed in the textbooks are covered in a superficial way. Students' empirical knowledge about fossils is defined by distorted views that are transmitted by the media. The use of fossils from regions close to each school or community becomes an efficient strategy for studying paleontology. The objective of this work was to elaborate didactic materials in the form of a “Paleontological Collection” and the didactic game “Trilha dos Fóssis", with fossils collected in Barra do Garças to subsidize teachers in the teaching of Paleontology to elementary and high school students. it has a qualitative and quantitative character and occurred in three stages: 1) collection of fossils in the field; 2) collection of the collected fossils; and 3) elaboration of the educational game. 28 samples of fossils of marine invertebrates of the Malvinocáfrica fauna were collected, present in the sedimentary rocks of the Ponta Formation Thick, being echinoderm, brachiopod and conulary fossils, through these teaching materials, it will be possible to learn about fossils and paleontology, as well as topics such as evolution and the origin of life.