• Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.212-223
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of elementary students' 'global environment'. The research method used the Sementic Network Analysis method of the global environment elements which appeared in the students' explanation about the picture and the picture that emerged about the 'global environment'. The results of the study are as follows. First, as a result of analyzing the students' explanation of the pictures along with the pictures of the students, the elementary students were perceived negatively about the global environment such as 'environmental pollution', 'global warming' and 'trash problem'. Second, as a result of analyzing the image of the global environment expressed in the picture, there were many images expressed from a everyday viewpoint rather than a macroscopic viewpoint, and there was a tendency to express the earth personified. In addition, the picture expressing the clean earth environment expressed the most trees with natural environment elements and expressed the healthy earth with various natural elements such as sea, mountain, and land. Third, as a result of analyzing the difference of perception of global environment by grade, it was found that the difference of perception of global environment by grade was not much different.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.77-86
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• 2009

The purposes of this study were to develop an Earth Systems-based program for science-gifted students and to investigate the effects of field application. The developed program was composed of six activities focused on 'fault and earthquake'. Each step including exploratory step, enrichment step and application step was designed to be associated with aims for Earth Systems Education. Two instruments for experiments were produced and students' activity sheets and teacher's guide of the program were developed. The program was applied to 14 science-gifted students who were 8th grade belonging to an institute for science-gifted at an university. Data was collected from students' activity sheets, outcomes and questionnaires. The findings were as follows. First, the results of analyzing the students' activity sheets and outcomes indicated that the program was helpful in understanding the interactions among subsystems of the Earth. Secondly, the results of the survey indicated that positive responses in acquiring scientific concepts and the results revealed science-gifted students were much interested in this program. Many students perceived that the level of program was appropriate for the science-gifted students, a few students perceived that the level of contents was high.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.26 no.7
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• pp.624-629
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• 2005

Numerical data of the geological time scale in Earth Science I, II textbooks and those of University textbooks of Korea and other countries are briefly reviewed. Numerical data of the geologic time scale shown in Earth Science I, II textbooks are mostly out of date and many of them follow those in the University textbooks of Korea. The same situation is apparent for introductory Earth Science or Geology textbooks of other countries as old data exist in their text books as well. There are many new data in the International Stratigraphic Chart (ISC 2000) and International Geologic Time Scale (IGTS 2003) recently updated by International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) and A Geologic Time Scale (GTS 2004). Among the new data, some important things are Paleogene and Neogene Periods of Cenozoic Era, Mississippian and Pensilvanian Epochs of Carborniferous Period, Paleoproterozoic, Mesoproterozoic, and Neoproterozoic Eras of Proterozoic Eon, and Eoarchean, Paleoarchean, Mesoarchean, and Neoarchean Eras of Archean Eon. These new data should be used in the new Earth Science textbooks.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.87-102
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• 2008

The purposes of this study were to analyze vocabularies used the section of 'Living Earth' in 11-grade Earth science textbooks with the Science Word Analysis (SWA) program and to investigate the vocabularies selected by the 11th grade students as difficult ones. For the purpose, we extracted the Earth science vocabularies from six textbooks, and classified into the scientific and non-scientific vocabularies with SWA program based on the standard Korean language dictionary. Also, we investigated the difficulty of each vocabulary by using questionnaire to three hundred sixty students. From the results analyzed with the program, it was found that the frequency of the scientific vocabularies out of the level was the largest any other level in all textbooks. And from the survey, most of the vocabularies selected by students as difficult to understand were classified into out of the level. From these results, it were suggested that the students' cognitive level should be considered in developing science textbooks and difficult vocabularies should be replaced to easy ones within the limits of changeless in the meanings.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.429-438
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• 2022

In this study, we propose a way to improve science teacher expertise through infographics creation teacher training program by analyzing the infographics types focusing on the Earth Science subject of the 2015 revised curriculum, and inspecting the teachers' utilization of graphic tools. The data visualization characteristics of Earth Science textbooks were analyzed, the execution results of the infographics creation teacher training program were presented, and a survey on science teachers' change in perception and competency of infographics. As a result of the Earth Science textbook analysis, diagram-type, map-type, and comparative analysis-type infographics were frequently used, and were mainly presented as text-assisted-type infographics. The infographics creation teacher training program was conducted five times for 112 science teachers to create the complete, text-assisted, incomplete, and gradient-type infographics. Incomplete infographics for development of evaluation questions were most needed. Although many science teachers recognize the importance of infographics, they lacked the competency to create high-quality infographics because there were no training opportunities for infographics creation. After completing the training, 74.1% of teachers felt that the quality of developments of supplementary textbooks and evaluation questions had improved, and answered that it was helpful in re-educating knowledge and improving teaching-learning methods. Based on the research results, ways to improve science teacher expertise through infographics creation teacher training program were suggested.

• 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.09a
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• pp.36-37
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• 2002

• 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.09a
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• pp.247-253
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• 2005

• 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.09a
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• pp.45-50
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• 2004

• 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.02a
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• pp.15-15
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• 2004

• 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.02a
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• pp.22-22
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• 2004