Development of teaching materials and taxonimic studies of goniatites fossils from Morroco

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26350205
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Science education
Research Institution	Nagoya University of Arts
Principal Investigator	Tojo Bunji 名古屋芸術大学, 人間発達学部, 准教授 (50422704)
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords	理科教材 / 化石教材 / 示準化石 / 古生代 / 実物化石 / 初中等教育 / 教材開発 / 理科教育 / ゴニアタイト
Outline of Final Research Achievements	I investigated the goniatite fossil production area around Morocco and Erfoud.　Among them, a fossil locality suitable as a standard fossil teaching material using real fossils was selected. Many fossils were gathered and a lot of pictures of the fossils occurances for teaching material were taken. A teaching material set is contain real fossils, pictures of fossil occurance and strata, fossil identification figure, and range chart.From these fossils, Clymeniida and Agoniatitida were selected as teaching materials. I have created a index fossil teaching material. From the identification of fossil species using this real fossil, the students can determine that the age of the strata is Devonian.