Empirical study on the literacy of the primary school students for the earthquake.

A large part of the research community in the field of Natural Sciences deals with students" pre-existing knowledge, their attitudes, their perceptions and their alternative ideas about natural phenomena, objects of nature and related concepts. The purpose of this paper is to distinguish the literacy of primary school students, regarding the natural phenomenon of the earthquake and to detect their alternative ideas. The sample of the empirical research consisted of 237 students of the four last grades of Primary Schools from the prefecture of Ioannina during the academic year 2019-2020. The same questionnaire was used for all classes. Statistical analyzes were performed with the statistical package SPSS 24.0. The results of the empirical study showed that two out of three students have alternative ideas, some of which depend on their grade, but do not depend at all on their gender.