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How Can We Improve the Lesson on Seasonal Change?

  • 투고 : 2017.10.30
  • 심사 : 2017.12.18
  • 발행 : 2017.12.30

초록

이 연구는 계절 변화에 대한 초등학생들과 벨리즈 초등교사의 선개념을 조사하고 계절 변화의 원인을 이해하는데 도움이 되는 실험을 고안한 것이다. 계절 변화에 대한 선개념을 알아보기 위해 계절변화를 학습하지 않은 초등학교 6학년 91명의 학생과 벨리즈 초등교사 10명을 대상으로 개방형 질문지와 인터뷰를 실시하였으며, 귀납적 분석법을 이용하여 범주화하였다. 초등학생과 벨리즈 초등교사는 계절 변화의 원인을 지구의 자전, 태양과 지구 사이의 거리, 지구의 공전, 환경오염이나 기후변화 등으로 생각하고 있었다. 그리고 이러한 오개념은 공간 인식에 대한 어려움, 교과서나 교재의 부정확함 등에 기인하는 것으로 나타났다. 계절 변화에 대한 부정확한 선개념을 바로 잡고 계절 변화 수업을 개선하기 위하여 지구 자전축의 기울기에 따른 태양의 남중 고도와 낮과 밤의 길이를 측정하고, 이를 비교하는 실험을 고안하였다. 이 실험은 태양의 남중 고도와 낮의 길이 변화와 같은 자연 현상을 모형을 통해 측정할 수 있도록 하여 계절변화의 원인을 이해하는데 도움을 줄 수 있다.

This study is to investigate preconception of elementary school students and Belizean elementary school teachers and to devise experiment to understand a cause of seasonal change. An open-ended questionnaire and interviews were conducted for 91 6th grade students who didn't learn seasonal change and 10 Belizean teachers to find out preconception of seasonal change and they were categorized by using inductive analysis. They thought that the Earth's rotation, the distance between the Sun and the Earth, the Earth's revolution, pollution and climate change cause seasonal change. And it found out that these misconceptions come from difficulty in awareness of space and impreciseness of textbooks and books and so on. The experiment was designed to correct inaccurate preconception and to improve lessons of seasonal change. It is to measure a meridian altitude and a length of daytime and nighttime and to compare them. This experiment can help to understand the cause of seasonal change by measuring natural phenomenons like the meridian altitude and the change of length of daytime by model.

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