| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東師範學院 === 數理教育研究所 === 91 === An Action Research of the History of Science integrated Science Teaching to promote Elementary School Children’s Viewpoints of the Nature of Science and Attitudes toward Science
Abstract
This study adopted Action Research and explored the influence on 4th elementary students’ understanding of the nature of science and attitudes toward science through integrating the history of science into elementary school teaching in the domain of “Science & Life-Technology.” The nature of science researching group, including the researcher and five classmates, hold regular meetings, to develop “the model of students’ understanding of the nature of science”, which according to the “Capability Index of the Nature of Science in the Nine-Year Curriculum” and related literatures.
Within “ The Power ”, “ The Living Things in The Water ”, “Photosynthesis” and “ The Shape And The Revolution of The Earth ” courses, we chose adequate materials on the history of science, developed the supplementary teaching materials, set the teaching goals and designed the questions to guide students to discuss the nature of science. With continuously revising, we hope to show a possible model of integrated the history of science into elementary school teaching.
We selected the researcher’s students to be the participants and conducted the analysis through multiple assessment instruments such as teaching activities, teaching videotapes, students’ workbooks, the adequate questionnaires, the questionnaire of “the nature of science of elementary students” and “the instrument of interviewing the nature of science of elementary students” developed by the research group, and ” the questionnaire of elementary students’ attitude toward the nature of science” to understand the change of the students’ understanding of the nature of science and the influence on attitudes toward science.
The results showed that the teaching models integrating the history of science into the elementary school teaching in the domain of “Science and Life-Technology” could enhance the participants’ understanding of the nature of science and their attitudes toward science. The researchers also gave suggestions to teaching and research in the future.
Key words: history of science, the nature of science, attitudes toward science, elementary students
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