The Study of Integrated Curriculum in Science for 'Energy Flow and Matter Cycling'
| Autor: | Chun-Yuan Yang, 楊鈞媛 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 96 The topic, Energy flow and matter cycling, includes concepts relevant to matters, biology and ecology. Certain studies revealed that students have difficulties learning on this topic without teaching concepts of matters and energy previously. We designed integrated curriculums which incorporate concepts of matters and energy into this topic and use plastic models of molecules for promoting students’ learning, and we assessed effects of our curriculums through a paper-pen test and semi-structured interviews conducted on seven-graded students and through analyses on concept maps made by them. Our results revealed that the integrated curriculum promote students, especially the high achieved ones, learning concepts of this topic as well as concepts of photosynthesis and aerobic respiration. After taking the integrated curriculum, students can better demonstrate links among concepts. Depending on the results, the follows are our suggestions: 1.The science teacher should try to design appropriated integrated curriculum. 2. Certain biological concepts could be taught later, for example, to nine-graded students. 3. Use models or figures to promote students' learning. |
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