Abstract

MELLO, Fernanda Torello de; MELLO, Luiz Henrique Cruz de  and  TORELLO, Maria Beatriz de Freitas. A paleontologia na educação infantil: alfabetizando e construindo o conhecimento. Ciência educ. [online]. 2005, vol.11, n.03, pp.397-410. ISSN 1516-7313.

Paleontology is recommended by PCN's (Brazilian Curricular Parameters) as a subject to be developed in basic education. Such theme frequently figures in many text-books all over the country. However, more complete approaches are rarely incorporated into daily teaching practices. Such absence seems to be more related to teachers' personal deficiencies (during their training) than to students' limitations (lack of interest or difficulties in learning process). Here we describe some actions related to kindergarten education working with the school (building), teachers, and children. The main proposal is to use Paleontology in the initial "read and write process", presenting this theme from the very beginning kindergarten activities. Final goals are related to paleontological knowledge becoming more popular in Brazilian basic education, to bring together University and School, to encourage with up to date of teachers' knowledge, and to help educators in setting up and executing activities on Paleontology. The actions mentioned here, more than ideas to be imitated, must work as feedback to generate new ideas, adjustable to particular conditions.

Keywords : Kindergarten Education; Paleontology; Scientific Diffusion.

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