Dear Bento and Sara,

thanks for your interesting paper and your responses to the reviewers. I like how your paper improved with the reviewer comments and your implementation. I can see that you addressed most of the reviewer comments but I would like to see the amended manuscript before it is published.

I added a checklist in the report.

Cheers,
Stephanie

Dear Bento and Sara,

thanks for sending your revised manuscript. This is now almost ready for publication.

Technical corrections: higher resolution images (if possible)

The useful paper looks to have responded to the reviewers' remarks and to be almost ready for publication. As noted by the Editor, however, there are quite a few minor technical corrections needed to improve the grammatical expression, and although some may be resolved during the publication process, to be certain please in advance correct the following:

Throughout the manuscript, can you:
Find/Replace 'preservice teachers' and change to 'Pre-service teachers' , which seems to be the globally accepted term?
Find / Replace 'contribute for' and replace with 'contribute to' ?

Some specific corrections:
39 The date is confusing, as Wegener's book emerged in 1929. Can you cite the original work?
60 replace 'though' with 'thought'
64 replace 'is a clear evidence' with 'is clear evidence'
66 replace 'Using the potentialities of digital resources' with 'Exploiting the potential of digital resources'
68 amend to 'SUCH as Google Earth'
69 amend to 'volcano formation'
70 amend to 'showed THAT the use... contributed to'
72 amend to 'contribute TO students’ learning'
75 This opening paragraph is untidy, so can you amend to: 'Computer simulations have evolved considerably, from the first simple models, in which interactivity was possible with only one or two defined parameters, to current simulations that are more complex, with more realistic visual representations which allow the user to make changes and observe their effects in real time.'
82 amend to 'reproduced in THE laboratory'
83 replace 'the simulated geological processes observed' with 'simulations of the observed geological processes'
101 change 'in teacher training context about Plate tectonics' to 'in the context of teacher training about Plate tectonics'
103 replace 'innovation concerning' with 'novelty in'
122 replace 'potentialities' with 'capabilities'
123 amend 'the, following PST’ feedback and teacher’s reflections' to 'following PST’ feedback and teacher’s reflections.'
128 change 'which allowed to provide better explanations sustained by the data' to 'which allowed explanations better fitting the data'.
133 - use either 'Guided Inquiry' if a formal procedure, or 'guided inquiry' if more informal
134 to aid non-educators' comprehension, replace 'didactical' with 'instructional'
153 Change 'It was used multiple sources of evidence for answering the research question' to 'Multiple sources of evidence were used for answering the research question
158 Cjhange to 'Another method of data collection used was a short survey of PST´ reflections on the contribution of the educational resource for their learning, which included their suggestions for its improvement'
311 change 'which addressed to the San Andreas Fault' to 'which referred to the San Andreas Fault'
345 Change 'The major part of PST was' to 'The majority of the PSTs were'
360 change 'to the pre-service teachers 360 (PST) conceptual knowledge about plate tectonics' to 'to the conceptual knowledge of pre-service teachers 360 (PST) about plate tectonics'
375 change 'which can cause understanding difficulties' to 'which can cause difficulties of comprehension'

Finally, as requested by the handling editor, higher-resolution screenshots from PhET™ Interactive Simulations will be required.