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-Distribution of high school students according to sources of knowledge acquisition on Paleontology (n=33).
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This work is the result of exploratory and descriptive research, with quantitative nature of data, which aimed toinvestigate the knowledge of high school students in southern Brazil about aspects related to Paleontology in general and, more specifically, to the basic concepts of Molecular Paleontology. The sample group consisted of 52 high school s...
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... answering about the preferred place for reading about Paleontology, 36.5% did not indicate any, while 63.5% of the students identified a preferred place for reading. Of this 63.5%, the majority (42.4%) reported finding information in articles on websites and/or newspapers, followed by social networks (36.4%), articles (12.1%), and books (9.1%) (Figure 1). Previous studies carried out with high school students from the northeast region of Brazil showed that most participants from this region of the country obtain information about paleontology from documentaries and films (Santos, Moreira & Fernando, 2018;Araújo & Siqueira, 2020), leaving as secondary the habit of reading. ...
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... noticed that these types of structures mentioned by high school students are the same examples of biomaterials that can be found on the internet, more specifically in the titles of articles on popular dissemination sites ( Figure 7, Table 1), which convey news about the organic finds exceptionally preserved inside fossils. -Cloud of words used in news headlines about traces of original biomaterials recovered from fossils. ...
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... the maximum period of time in which the remains of original "soft tissues" could be preserved inside fossils, the majority (25%) of the answers relate to an interval of millions of years, followed by those in which the preservation occurs for at most thousands of years (16.7%), billions of years (13.3%), a very short time after the death of the organism (13.3%), hundreds of years (6.7%), tens of years (3.3%) and those who did not know how to give an opinion (21.7%) ( Figure 10). It was noted that the students' answers are divided on this question. ...
