| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 自然科學教育學系碩士班 === 94 === Biodiversity is the base of sustainable human living. How to maintain biodiversity and ensure the needs for human beings becomes an imminent issue. Education is one of the best ways to transmit the concept - biodiversity to students. The destruction of life habitats and over-use of living being resources have gradually threatened biodiversity. The resolution to the threat is to let everyone hold correct knowledge and attitudes toward nature conservation.
The purpose of this study is to develop and teach a biodiversity conservation program at Hong Dan Mountain, and to evaluate the effectiveness of this instruction on 4th grade students’ biodiversity and nature conversation concept. A quasi-experimental design was used with 4 classes. Two class (n=65) was assigned as the experimental group, and the others (n=64) was the control group. Students in experimental group were given 6 weeks of teaching activities on biodiversity conservation program; while the control group received original curriculum during the same time. A closed-ended, pre-test/post-test questionnaire, was used to assess the outcome effects.
The main findings of this study were as following:
1. With the involvement of experimental courses, the students’ biodiversity concepts are greatly improved.
2. With the involvement of experimental courses, the students’ nature conservation concepts are greatly improved.
3. The qualitative analysis shows that students’ attitude toward nature conservation improved significantly due to the biodiversity learning.
Based on the afore-mentioned conclusions, the following suggestions are proposed as a reference for teachers, future researchers, and follow-up studies.
1. Teachers should attempt to design outdoor and biodiversity theme-based curriculums and implement related educational activities.
2. Teachers can develop their own school characteristics with the biodiversity curriculums to improve students’ biodiversity concepts.
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