| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 96 === The goal of this research is studying how kids learn to know plants through the teaching of Amis’ Herbal Culture. Targets of this study are 20 kids in kindergarten located in East Taiwan. 10 of them are Amis, a Taiwanese aboriginal. Before the eight-week program is launching, a pretest will be done to understand how they think of plants. During the interaction between teachers and kids, the teacher may modify the program based on the change of the class. This program is also to enhance a teacher’s teaching profession. After the program is finished, a posttest will be held to understand the transformation of young kids’ idea of plants.
Results of the research:
I. The study of botany teaching is based on herbal culture on life experience of tribal kids. The program will be started by observing, discussing, searching, and experiment to build their concepts of plant and scientific abilities. In the meantime, a life style of scientific education that combines culture and science is also constructed.
II. In the beginning of the teaching herbal culture program, kids can only separate plants from animals, and do not have clear idea of how plants grow and how they function. Starting from passive learning experience, they increasingly learn to know plants more and more by active learning and building their own knowledge and concepts.
III. Scientific picture books are offered to young kids’ mass reading and as a guiding tool in the program. Young kids read picture books for joy. Through illustrations and photos, they interpret the meaning of books by themselves. Young kids favor scientific picture books with photos.
IV. The scientific education for kindergarten teachers is to cultivate the scientific abilities for young kids, but not to offer them scientific knowledge. Through discussion, raising questions, and field searching in the program, one understands how kids think and clarifies the misunderstanding that one may have to them. This way, young kids will have time to think and search for questions and be enticed to learn.
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