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

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• 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
• Keywords: 理科教材 / 化石教材 / 示準化石 / 古生代 / 実物化石

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.

Free Research Field

理科教育