Archaeology and the teaching of science at the early stages of education: the experience of the project SciLit

The 6th September 2018, in the framework of the 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, various members of the CSIC at School Team presented the results obtained in the SciLit Project, in particular, those related to the archaeology aspects. The aim of the oral presentation was to present the Project, its results on strategies about practices of science teaching in early years’ education and the role Archaeology had in our work.

Our presentation focused on how Archaeology, as a scientific discipline, has been approached within the project. More concretely, we detailed which contents and methodologies of archaeological research have been relevant in our training sessions with teachers (such as stratigraphy, context) and how our ideas and experiences have resulted in a teacher’s guide to bring archaeology into the classroom.

Archaeology has several educational values and fits perfectly in the school curricula of partners. We also explained explain in which way carrying out archaeology to the classroom has resulted in several benefits, such as better social integration of students; enhancement of the understanding of children’s social and environmental background; and motivation through the development of transversal projects.

More information, the scientific program and the book of abstracts (an abstract of our presentation is included on the second volume of the book of abstracts, page 987) can be found at https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2018

Image of the first slide of our power point presentation.