Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 應用物理暨化學系 === 106 === The target of this study is to investigate the effect of using STEM teaching materials on the debris flow issue for elementary school upper graders.
In this study, researchers adopt ADDIE systematic teaching mode to design a set of STEM teaching materials concerning debris flow. They also allow students to have hands-on experience with Micro:Bit and related detectors. The teaching materials involve three topics: weather, typhoon and debris flow, which are further developed into five chapters. After the teaching plan is implemented, researchers then investigate learning effects and cognition differences of students on S(Science), T(Technology), E(Engineering), M(Mathematics) and also the learning effects of the topics: weather, typhoon and debris flow.
The object of this study was 31 upper graders in 2 elementary schools, and the total teaching time was 180 minutes for five chapters, including weather, typhoon, rainy seasons and debris flow, through the set of teaching materials. Researchers used Micro:Bit and related detectors to have students do experiments. The last unit was to have students make their own natural disaster sirens using all they had learned from previous experiments. During teaching, study manuals, slides, videos and experiments were applied to help students focus on learning. At last, researchers used quantified analysis to analyze the students’ test results to evaluate the learning effects.
After analyzing, researchers discovered the results of post-test are better than pre-test. There is remarkable difference either on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields or on weather, typhoon, debris flow topics.
To sum up, researchers suggest Micro:Bit be used in different courses in Science and Technology field. And researchers also recommend STEM teaching be implemented in different courses to expose students to more different learning methods.
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