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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9126-RBEF-2020-0160

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Document Outline

• Introduction: Why Consider an Interdisciplinary Perspective for this Problem?
• Interdisciplinarity and Contents in Science Teacher Education
• Cosmogeochemistry in Present School Curricula
  • USA curriculum
  • Australia curriculum
  • Brazil curriculum
• A Preliminary Issue: Nuclear Fusion and Nucleosynthesis in a Nutshell
• The Big Bang, the Stars and the Periodic Table
  • Big Bang nucleosynthesis
  • Stellar nucleosynthesis
  • Cosmic catastrophes (neutron star mergers) and heavy elements
• The Formation of the Sun and the Solar System
• Earth's current structure: Core, Mantle and Crust
• A Proposal of a Didactic Sequence
  • Class 1
  • Class 2
  • Class 3
  • Class 4
  • Class 5
• Conclusions