Abstract
The Geology teaching and learning processes should be carried out
through the interaction of different learning environments, inside the
classroom and outdoors. Practical activities are a methodological
strategy widely suggested by the Portuguese Ministry of Education for
the Geology teaching whose aim is to promote the development of skills
(knowledge, ability and attitudes) denying the idea that the subjects of
this science are complex and far from the students’ academic interests
and needs. This work presents some formal and non-formal education
practical activities (e.g. laboratory and fieldwork, mineral fairs,
national contests), developed throughout the last year in Sé School, a
small school in the north of Portugal, with students of the different
grades (Kindergarten to high school).