Moroccan pupil's conception of second year college related to volcanoes

The several study about conception of different geological concepts has been much research in science education. All this research agrees that pupils come to class with the initial conception that could be an obstacle to the acquisition of these concepts.The initially aims of this work identify the Moroccan pupil's conceptions in second year of college about the volcano concept. The methodology based on a questionnaire to a sample of pupils before any official courses on the volcano concept. The results of our study show that students in majority have the initial conception on volcanoes.We also identified correlations between the initial conception of these pupils and those of futures teachers of life and Earth sciences, and those conceptions between the French and Lebanese pupils and teachers.