| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 環境教育研究所 === 93 === This research is to test the effect of the gardening teaching module designed by the researcher to elementary school students’ knowledge, attitude and behavior intention. The research method is quasi-experiment design with the comparison between the experimental group and control group which only got the regular curriculum. The students of the experimental group received gardening teaching modules which emphasize land ethics, labor education, and life education and consist of eleven sections, thirteen hours gardening activities to teach how to plant the vegetables. The control and experimental groups answered questionnaire before and after the program and answered working sheets at the end of the certain sections.
The result shows the students’ score of knowledge of and attitude toward land ethics and knowledge of labor education increased with significant level after gardening teaching program. At the same time, the experimental group’s knowledge of and attitude toward land ethics and knowledge of life education is higher than the control group’s significantly. However, the experimental group’s attitude toward the labor education decreased significantly. Based on the teachers’ observation and students’ description on working sheets, three reasons can explain the negative impact of the program. These are labor intension activities and too many worksheets for students as well as poor productivity of the vegetable in the garden during the program reduced students’ motivation.
The research found the students who had planted vegetable before have significantly high attitude and intention toward this module. Therefore, the researcher suggests the gardening teaching module should be adjusted to reduce the labor work and teachers should usually encourage students during the program to overcome students’ tiredness.
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