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An Instructional Design for the Converged English-Science Teaching Method using PBL Model in Elementary School (PBL 모형을 적용한 초등학교 영어·과학 융합 수업 모델 설계)

  • Park, In-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.66-72
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    • 2020
  • In order to cultivate talented people with national economic influence in the rapidly changing 21st- century modern society, STEM(Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) education has been emphasized in advanced countries such as America and England. In South Korea, STEAM(Science Technology Engineering Arts Mathematics) education is emphasized by adding Arts. The objective of STEAM education is to strengthen the interest and motivation of learners, to focus on experience, exploration, experimentation, to solve convergent thinking and real-life problems, rather than cramming method of teaching and memorization. This study identifiesan instructional design for converged English, the world's official language, and science which is found in nearly all disciplines. With the development of the 4th industrial revolution based on the PBL model, learners participate in their lessons voluntarily for problem-solving skills. The instructional design based on the ADDIE model consists of 5 procedures: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The goal of fostering talented people with national economic influence is also important, and the teacher in education must recognize the importance of STEAM education and an appropriate instructional design should be studied constantly.

Spatial Ability and Mathematical Achievement of Elementary School Students (초등학생의 공간시각화능력 및 수학성취도에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Sungsun
    • Education of Primary School Mathematics
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.303-313
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    • 2013
  • Spatial ability has been valued as one component of intelligence and associated with the achievements in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and important in STEM education. The purpose of this study is to assess elementary school students' spatial ability and analyze the relationship with mathematical achievement, gender and grade level. This study explored the spatial visualization ability of 1288 elementary school students (grade 4-6) in Seoul and Gangwon province and investigated association between spatial ability and students' mathematics achievement, the students' spatial ability according to their gender and grade level. As a result, this study showed that there were significant correlations between spatial ability and mathematical achievement. And also, boy students were better than girl students in spatial ability and higher grader were better than lower graders in spatial ability. According to these results, spatial ability should be included as one of the important components in identifying students for gifted education programs. Furthermore, more research is needed on how to effectively structure educational opportunities to students both who have high spatial ability and have low spatial ability.

Constructing Convergence Knowledge on Velocity with Family Resemblance Approach (가족 유사성 접근법을 적용한 물체의 빠르기 주제의 융합지식 구성 연구)

  • Lee, Sooah;Jhun, Youngseok
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.188-205
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    • 2018
  • For STEM education science teachers usually choose topics which are related to both science and other disciplinary contents. Nevertheless it is not clear for the teachers to adopt what kind of criteria for their choices. Interdisciplinary teaching is not a mixture of science content with another one from different disciplines as resources for the content teaching. Instead the criteria and perspectives for the integration need to be clearly defined. In this study we investigated how to integrate science and other disciplines in terms of interdisciplinary teaching. Family resemblance approach by Wittgenstein, recently revised by Erduran and Dagher, was applied to comparative analysis of science, math, and physical education curriculum documents in Korea. Aim and value, methodological rules and methods, knowledge, and activities in each discipline were compared and analyzed with the view of FRA. Results of the study described alternative criteria of how to find appropriate topics for interdisciplinary teaching.

Exploring the motivation for science learning of 3rd year high school students who chose different college majors from their track (계열과 다른 대학 전공으로 진학한 고등학교 3학년 학생의 과학학습동기의 특성 탐색)

  • Ha, Minsu;Shin, Sein;Lee, Jun-Ki
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.317-324
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    • 2016
  • This study aims to investigate the motivation for science learning of 3rd year high school students who choose different majors from their track. A total of 2,012 high school 3rd year students participated in this study. We used Science Motivation Questionnaire II (Glynn et al., 2011) to measure the students' science motivation and performed Rasch analysis, MANOVA and logistic regression analysis. First, results showed that 11.5% of students in the science track switched their pathway to a non-STEM major and 14.3% of students in the humanities track switched to a STEM major. In addition, there were gender differences in switching majors. Second, we found a significant difference in science motivation between two groups of students switching their major only in career motivation. Third, science motivation was the significant predictor of STEM major choice; in particular, career motivation was the most influential variable. Based on these results, we proposed that prediction of and paying close attention to students' career motivation are required before making decisions on which track to take.

Suggesting an Analysis Framework for Korea STEAM Programs in the Perspective of Engineering Design (공학설계 측면에서 한국 STEAM 프로그램 분석틀 제안)

  • Lee, DongYoung;Nam, Younkyeong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.63-77
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze Korea STEAM Programs in the perspective of Engineering Design. A pilot study of analyzing 41 STEAM programs was conducted by using Guzey et al. (2014)'s STEM program analysis framework. Based on the pilot study result, we suggested specific criteria to analyze Korea STEAM program and developed an analysis framework by considering characteristics of Korea STEAM program we found. The analysis framework suggested by this study has 5 more criteria compared to the Guzey et al. (2014)'s framework. By using the suggested framework, we analyzed another 76 STEAM programs developed by the grant of Korea foundation for the Admin of Science & Creativity (KOFAC) in 2016. The analysis results show that only 28.5% of total 76 Korea STEAM programs are focused on Engineering Design and the programs categorized as 'Complete Engineering Design Lesson' were only 5.4%. More than half of the programs (62.3%) are focused on only science contents with crafting and/or concept drawing activities.

Development and Implementation of STEAM Program based on Programming using Kodu (Kodu를 이용한 프로그래밍 중심 STEAM 교육 프로그램 개발 및 적용)

  • Kim, Tae-Hun;Yang, Young-Hoon;Kim, Jong-Hoon
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.1020-1030
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study was to develop the STEAM educational program based on the computer programming. STEAM education has been recently attracted to a lot of people. We had a focus of computer science in STEM fields. We used the programming language f or learning KODU. We selected appropriate topics for STEAM education and learning programming. We developed the educational program of 30 hours about selected topics and had classes for 4th and 5th grade elementary students. In order to verify the effectiveness of the educational program, we analyzed the results of pre- and posttest about GALT(Group Assessment of Logical Thinking), TTCT(Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking), science-related affective domain, and mathematical interests and attitudes tests. In the analysis results, the education program we developed had positive impacts on creativity, logical thinking, and science-related affective domain of elementary school students.

The Effect of Robots in Education based on STEAM (융합적 사고를 기반으로 한 로봇활용 교육의 효과)

  • Cho, Seong-Hwan
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.58-65
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this paper is to improve scientific attitude and interest of the elementary school students by using STEAM-based robots in education. In this work, we analyzed PDIE model that describes methodology for generating STEAM integrated education materials and then we also developed teaching materials utilizing STEAM-based robots. The effect of the STEM-based robots in education was analyzed through a test class which demonstrated the robots indeed help improving scientific attitude and interest of students. During the class, individual knowledge and experience of the students were integrated into the STEAM-based robots which then provide customized help for each student so that they have better understanding and interest in science, technology, and engineering field.

Determination of Eleutherosides B and E in Various Parts of Acanthopanax Species (오갈피나무의 부위별 Eleutheroside B와 Eleutheroside E의 정량)

  • Lee, Sang-Hyun;Kang, Sam-Sik;Cho, Seon-Haeng;Ryu, Su-Noh;Lee, Burm-Jong
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.36 no.2 s.141
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    • pp.70-74
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    • 2005
  • High performance liquid chromatography(HPLC) was used for the determination of eleutherosides B and E in various parts of Acanthopanax species. Eleutheroside B was detected in the stem (1.45 mg/g) and the root (0.59 mg/g) of A. senticosus and the stem (0.31 mg/g) of A. senticosus grafted on A. sessiliflorus. But there is no detection of eleutheroside B in A. sessiliflorus and the root of A. senticosus grafted on A. sessiliflorus. Eleutheroside E was detected in the stem (0.92, 0.97 and 0.30 mg/g, respectively) and the root (0.65, 0.94, 0.34 mg/g, respectively) of A. senticosus, A. sessiliflorus and A. senticosus grafted on A. sessiliflorus.

Studies on the Effect of heavy Metal on the Growth of Various Plants 1. The Effect of Cadmium and Lead (수종식물의 생육에 미치는 중금속의 영향에 관한 연구 1. Cadmium, Lead 의 영향)

  • Kim, Byung Woo
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.176-186
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    • 1982
  • Uptake and effects of treated Cd and Pb in rose moss and tomato were studied in pot cultures. Three horticulural plants on the roadside were tested to determine the contents of heavy metals in plant parts. Yields of rose moss were increased by the increase Pb concentrations in soil. Yields of rose moss by Cd treatment were decreased in 1, 000 ppm group, but increased in 500 ppm group. Portulaca grandiflora Hook. proved to be tolerent of Pb and Cd added in soil. Yields of tomato were decreased by an incrase of Pb concentration in soil, and tomato proved to be weak for Pb added in soil. Pb contents in root, stem, leaf, and flower and seed of rose moss were increased by an in crease of Pb concentration in soil Pb content in root was the highest among them. Pb content was the highest in root of tomato, but the lowest in the stem. Among the heavy metal contents metal contents of three horticultural plants collected by roadside, it was the Chrysanthemum which had the highest contents of heavy metal among them. The heavy metal contents in stem were less than in the other plnat parts in all three plants. The number of flowers in rose moss was decreased by an increase of Pb, and Cd concentration in soil, but in tomato it was increased by an increase of Pb concentration in soil. Amount of rose moss seeds which were collected after cultivation was decreased by Pb, and Cd treatment in soil.

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