Scienze Naturali, Scienze dei Sistemi Naturali,
Evoluzione del comportamento animale e dell’uomo

To identify topics of Earth Sciences relevant for teaching Earth Sciences to secondary school students and organize appropriate educational activities. Propose individual and group activities that attract and consolidate the basic knowledge. Recognize the relationships between processes and phenomena in the natural environment. Arrange safe hands-on activities in the laboratory and in the field, suitable for school groups of secondary school. Recognize the relationships between Life Sciences and Earth Sciences. Learning-teaching strategies aimed at developing a collaborative attitude, the comparison of opinions, respect for differences. To learn how to investigate the students’ spontaneous knowledge, to recognize misconceptions and to intervene with adequate teaching tools. Knowing how to stimulate students' motivation and enhance the role of the errors.

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Knowing how to interpret scientific articles and essays, news reports and informative texts with specific terminology of each core disciplines that make up the trail of Earth Sciences in secondary schools
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Transfer the knowledge acquired at the theoretical level to practical situations of everyday context
JUDGEMENT
Analyze the data and news dissemination of scientific research, recognizing its importance, any contradictions and inconsistencies
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Communicate effectively and correctly complex concepts related to the event caused by natural processes and the effects they produce in the environment, taking into account the integration with the biota and human activities

Presentation of an individual report containing the documents produced in the interactive activities during the course. Written examination with multiple choice questions and open-ended items. Oral discussion of the report and analysis of the written test. Theoretical insights on general and cross-cutting themes.

Durante il corso verranno richieste relazioni individuali e di gruppo sulle singole attività svolte, questionari a risposta chiusa e aperta per verificare l'apprendimento di singoli argomenti, mappe concettuali e mappe di flusso per verificare la capacità di organizzare i concetti. A fine corso si richiede di organizzare in un dossier gli elaborati prodotti durante il corso, le riflessioni sul percorso di apprendimento e sulle interazioni con gli altri studenti (metariflessione).

Lectures and practical activities develop reflective skills on the disciplinary contents starting from the founding step “ The Earth that changes, the Earth that is transformed with an unceasing flux of matter a n d e n e r g y ” a n d f o l l o w s d i f f e r e n t i n t e r p - descriptive and comparative (synchronic) of objects and shapes, to e n h a n c e t h a t t h e y r e p r e s e n t t e m p o r a r y s t e p s i n s i d e - interpretative of the origin and causes, showing the relevance of i n d u c t i v e a n d i n f e r e n t i a l p r o c e s s e s ;
- evolutionary (diachronic), to reconstruct the Earth History, paying p a r t i c u l a r a t t e n t i o n t o t h e h i s t o r i c a l d e v e l o p m e n t o f - systemic, giving evidence to the connection between Earth and Life H i s t o r y , t o t h e r e c i p r o c a l i n t e r a c t i o n a n d c o T h e p r o g r a m i n c l u d e s t h e f o l l o w i n g t o p i c s : changes of landforms connected to their conservation and protection; rock cycle connected to plate tectonic; fossils as witnesses of Life evolution; resources availability and renewal

The lecture material will be available on the website
Recommended basic texts for the course:
– Le Scienze della Terra: fondamenti ed esperienze pratiche. * FERRERO E., TONON M. & PROVERA A., Edizioni Cortina, Torino: 133 pp., 2004
– Scienze della Terra: la scoperta dell’ambiente fisico * FERRERO E., TONON M. & PROVERA A,. Edizioni Cortina, Torino: 154 pp. ., 2004
It 'strongly advised to use the following material for further information and integration:
– La Scienza di Gaia. Ambienti e sistemi naturali visti da un geologo. RICCI LUCCHI F. Zanichelli Editore, 1996
– Geodiversity, valuing and conservino abiotic nature. GRAY J.M. WileyEd., , 2004
– Dangerous Earth, an introduction to geological hazards, MURCK B W., SKINNER B.J., PORTER S.C., 1997
Finally other websites of interest are listed below:
www.earthlearningidea.com; http://www.iris-sostenibilita.net/i