Paleontology as a didactic tool to learn about environmental change

Abstract

Introduction and Objective. This paper describes a workshop on historical climate change for teachers at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Methodology. In this workshop, teachers analyzed hypothetical evidence of fossil records to relate them to climate and environmental change. Results. This work describes the subsequent analysis of the proposed activity. Teachers' prior knowledge about these concepts and their cognitive-linguistic abilities are also described. Conclusion. The workshop provided teachers with a didactic tool for teaching fossil records, climate change, and geological time within Earth Science.