Lockdown in Mars

Resumen

In this work, we present a series of educational activities that rely on geological tools to dive into the science of core standards. In this sense, Geology is not the subject to be studied, but the educational resource: we learn with Geology, rather than about Geology. Water is the common element to all activities, and the exploration of Mars (its geology, atmosphere, life conditions, etc.) becomes the engaging background. The primary objective of these activities consists of promoting the basis of scientific reasoning in students. Hence, we tested them with pre-service teachers, in order to investigate their opinions and comments about the strengths and weaknesses of our proposal as regards critical reasoning. Since the activities are so easy to carry out and they could be adapted to an online format, they might become an example of the kind of teaching-learning resources teachers should implement and/or carry out during lockdown conditions.