Les conceptions initiales des élèves turcs de CM2 relatives aux séismes

Knowledge on the earthquake thus constitutes a complex knowledge, resulting from a long historical background, transformed to knowledge to be taught by the choices of the official programs, the handbooks and by the taking into account of the processes of construction of the knowledge of the children, and the processes of the elaboration of concepts in the field of the terrestrial sciences, lit by J Piaget and other researchers. If these representations are recognition, they can be used as a basis for organizing strategies adapted to the students. This article describes which particular personal conceptions the Turkish children have constructed by themselves about the earthquake and the volcanoes before any courses on these subjects. We carried out a series of tests on this topic and analyzed the results.