Memories of the 1969 earthquake in the municipality of Lamego (Portugal): an interdisciplinary project of curriculum articulation
Authors: P. Correia Gina , Colim Isabel , Cabral Liliana , Rodrigues Rui , Oliveira Vítor 
Published: March 2020

&lt;p&gt;The 1969 earthquake was the most important and the last major earthquake to hit Portugal in the 20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; century. Its epicentre was about 230 km SW of Lisbon, had a magnitude Ms = 7.9 and a magnitude Mw = 8.0. In Lamego, its intensity was rated as grade V (strong) and in most of the country, it varied from grade VI to VII of the modified Mercalli scale. To mark the 50&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; anniversary of this event, the project 'Memories of the 1969 earthquake in the municipality of Lamego' emerged from an interdisciplinary perspective of curriculum articulation. Developed throughout the school year 2019-2020, this project involves 60 high school science and technology students, and the subject areas of Biology and Geology, Mathematics A, Philosophy, Physics and Chemistry A, and Portuguese. To date, the following activities have been carried out: - an online survey was conducted on students' family/friends/acquaintances in order to gather relevant information regarding descriptions from those who experienced this tectonic phenomenon in Lamego; - reading and statistical processing of the obtained data; - research regarding the incident in the local press at the time; - creation of scientific posters with the collected data; production of a written critical reflection on the philosophical nature and the ethical and environmental consequences of earthquakes as &amp;#8220;natural hazards&amp;#8221;; organisation of a public session for the presentation of the outcome of the carried out research, together with the inauguration of the 'Earthquake of February 28&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;, 1969 - Local and National Memory' exhibition, composed of a set of posters and audio-visual material. This last activity was developed through a partnership with the Centre for Earth and Space Research of University of Coimbra and was a part of the program for the Science and Technology Week 2019 at the University of Coimbra, the main partner of this project, which also has the support of the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), the Portuguese Society of Seismic Engineering (SPES), the European Centre on Urban Risks (CERU), the Lamego Castle and the Latino Coelho School Cluster, Lamego. In the future, students will carry on with the statistical processing of the obtained data from the survey and will produce scientific posters to present at a national science congress for young students. This project aims to promote students' scientific literacy and involve them in the study of the History of Science of regional and national remarkable events, enhancing scientific attitudes that recognise the importance of contextualizing scientific facts for the proposal of solutions to complex problems. Furthermore, this project also seeks to involve the whole community in science projects.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Acknowledgments&lt;br&gt;CITEUC is funded by National Funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology (project: UID/Multi/00611/2019) and FEDER - European Regional Development Fund through COMPETE 2020 - Operational Programmer Competitiveness and Internationalisation (project: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006922).&lt;/p&gt;