A experiência da oficina “Do mito à natureza: educar o olhar para as Ciências da Terra” no Festival de Inverno de Antonina (PR)

Natural phenomena are common themes in popular mythology. The experience of working withgeomyths occurred on an artistic-cultural meeting, the 19th UFPR Winter Festival at Antonina (PR), carried out on2009 July. The workshop has been idealized, elaborated and executed by PET-Geologia and extensionist fellows fromthe UFPR project named “Sala da Terra: geosciences education and daily society’’. The workshop´s main issue was topresent and to discuss basic geosciences concepts, having geomythology as the starting point. The workshop was based ondidactic materials as 3D-models, brochures, audiovisual, as well as fieldwork activities. General concepts were introducedas slope stability, coastal dynamics, plate tectonics, volcanism and the building of Serra do Mar Mountains. To measure theexperience, two tests pre and post workshop tests have been taken, besides and evaluation´s questionnaire. The results ofthe pre-test have shown the partial absence of geosciences subjects in basic schools. Issues of the pre-college curricula or withpowerful media image had good scored. It could demonstrate that didactic materials, as 3D-models, the geomythologicalapproach, as well as fieldwork activities, was very effective in promoting learning and retention of concepts.