A Study on Learning Effect of Health Education in Sixth Grade with Zygote Body

• Main Authors: Chiu-Ping Chang, 張秋萍
• Other Authors: Hsueh-Ting Chu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76405483004488787422

碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 資訊工程學系碩士在職專班 === 103 === The purpose of this study aims at integrating the 3D technology “ZYGOTE BODY” into Health Education and assessing its effectiveness. The subject of the health lessons are for sixth graders who are gradually reaching puberty. When facing the key moment of both physical and mental changes, students need to learn some crucial lessons about themselves, such as how to correctly recognize and accept their own bodies in a sound mind, understanding how the opposite sex think, mutual respect between two sexes, and self-protection. Health Education provides an easy access to the above-mentioned knowledge. Nevertheless, with the limited contents of the textbook, students hardly have the chance to see the internal organs they have often heard of. They are curious about these organs which sound familiar but yet are actually strange to them.Thus, in this theme-based instruction called “Get to Know My Body Better”, a self-compiled teaching material is adopted. Different from applying the conventional flat posters as teaching aids, the study employs browsers of 3-dimensional models of human bodies in Health Education for six graders. The result of the study shows that applying ZYGOTE BODY in class helps to enhance their motivation to learn compared with using conventional posters. Besides, students’ learning effect has elevated as well. However, Health Education is often considered to be a minor subject and can be easily under-estimated because of the emphasis of academic subjects and the indifference from the school authorities. To sum up, being healthy is one of the fundamental human rights which people shouldn’t be deprived of. It is essential to strive for conducting a normal and effective instruction in Health Education.