The natural heritage that surrounds us is as valuable as it is often unknown. Knowing our environment is necessary to appreciate and respect it. Transmit our rich cultural and natural heritage value It is essential to raise awareness among the younger generations and it is our responsibility to bring this knowledge to the classrooms.
The natural environment becomes a container of knowledge and educational resource, a space for culture and learning through significant strategies: active teaching, the value of meaningful learning, the importance of observation and experimentation, the need for contact with reality, ... a valuable procedural instrument that allows the teaching and learning process to be stimulated by the emotion of building knowledge through the development of cognitive skills based on active participation.
Know, value and respect the natural heritage It also implies an education in values. Knowing our environment, understanding it and giving it meaning is a way to take advantage of its educational potential.
A true didactic revolution is the one carried out PALEO Events , a program of scientific and informative itineraries aimed at Primary and ESO students, aimed at showing the natural history recounted by the amazing and ancient events that our natural spaces hold: avalanches, explosions, earthquakes, climate changes...
A program of excursions through the island's landscapes designed to support the teaching teams from any educational center in Tenerife.
This initiative, which has been running since the 2015/16 academic year, aims to ensure that all schoolchildren on the island know what the nature that welcomes them is like, through an active methodology and pedagogical renewal: observing, imagining, creating, playing, manipulating, reflecting, formulating hypotheses, concluding, checking or giving alternatives are different steps of an active and investigative learning process.
Since its inception, the PALEO Events program has become essential material, as recognized by the teams responsible for numerous centers on the island, who continue to place their trust in the project, since it is a complementary support program to the curricular areas and that takes advantage of the didactic possibilities offered by our environment.
Scientific and Informative Itineraries
Organized by age and educational level, these innovative and entertaining educational itineraries show 7 places in the SOUTH of Tenerife that hide the traces of spectacular events that took place thousands of years ago, in some cases, and centuries in others:
– LAVAS
A rough and hard volcanic fan – Malpaís de Güímar Special Nature Reserve
– WAVES
Ignimbrites in arches, ravines and coast – Tajao (Arico)
– AVALANCHES
A pyroclastic formation – Los Derriscaderos Natural Monument
– EXPLOSIONS
A “nuclear” volcano – Montaña Pelada Natural Monument
– EARTHQUAKES?
An earthquake in the sand? – Red Mountain Special Nature Reserve
– CLIMATE CHANGES
Old fossilized beaches – Costa Litoral La Tejita/Los Abrigos
– VOLCANIC CRACKS
A balcony to the depths of the planet – Teide National Park
On the other hand, the proposal of itineraries of the NORTH zone offers the possibility of getting closer to 5 places that show dazzling events that our biodiversity has experienced, as well as surprising geological moments that marked the way of being of a territory.
– GEA
An immense lava channel – Costa de La Guancha
– FOSSILS
Fossilized dunes on the cliff – Bajamar Coast
– VERMIN
The “bugs” of a forest – Anaga Rural Park
– COAST
A Quaternary coastline – Punta del Hidalgo
– TREES
Trees with “personality” Historic center of Tegueste
The scientific interest, its convenient location and the safety to be visited, are conditions that "oblige" to show these corners to the students of the island's educational centers, so the program has been adapted to target ages between 6 and 17 years old.
PALEO Events, directed by Juanjo Suárez – Heritage consulting It is an initiative created from the heart that wants respond to the needs of the centers and students, offering a set of activities for the analysis and knowledge of the natural environment, which help to complete the development of the curriculum and promote a comprehensive education.
A resource that, without a doubt, complements the knowledge transmitted in class during the school year and raises awareness of the concept of sustainability and respect for the environment, history and natural heritage and the environment in general, promoting a critical spirit and values, interest in science and research, teamwork and solidarity between students, as well as mutual respect and being better people.
