• 제목/요약/키워드: earth science literacy

검색결과 79건 처리시간 0.02초

Global Science Literacy

  • Mayer, Victor J.
    • 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
    • /
    • 한국지구과학회 2003년도 추계학술발표회 및 정기총회
    • /
    • pp.15-17
    • /
    • 2003
  • Global Science Literacy is proposed as an international curriculum standard for science literacy. It is based on the science curriculum construct of Earth Systems Education, which has come out of the earth science education community in the United States. The presentation will briefly describe the nature of ESE, and include, if sufficient time, an audience participation simulation of mass extinction.

  • PDF

The Study of High School Students' Environmental Literacy

  • Shin, Dong-Hee;Chu, Hye-Eun;Ko, Hee-Ryung;Lee, Eun-Ah
    • 한국지구과학회지
    • /
    • 제25권3호
    • /
    • pp.185-193
    • /
    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study is to explore high school students' environmental literacy and from its result, to suggest ways to reform environmental education. 1047 students from Seoul and Kyeongki province participated in the survey. The questionnaire consisted of four criteria of environmental literacy including knowledge, skill, attitude and behavior. The result was analyzed and the factors which affect high school students environmental literacy were explored. From this result, we made suggestions to improve environmental education as follows. First, environmental education in school should focus on knowledge criterion. Though school environmental education has been helpful for students to build environmental literacy in attitude and behavior criteria, its effect has not been good enough in knowledge criterion. Second, science education can enhance students' environmental literacy. Students who like science best and students who belong to science major classes were reported to possess better understanding in knowledge criterion. Also, students who like life science appeared to have a more positive attitude in environmental literacy. Third, informal education must be considered to form students' environmental literacy. In particular, the effect of mass media is inarguable. Thus, we should find a way to link formal education and informal education to improve environmental education. Fourth, high school students' interest in the environment must be encouraged since it is evident that higher interest would result in better outcome in environmental education.

Development of the K-12 Science Literacy Education Program focused on the Earth System and Environment

  • Lee, Eun-Ah;Fortner, Rosanne W.
    • 한국지구과학회지
    • /
    • 제27권7호
    • /
    • pp.723-729
    • /
    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study was to develop a program based on the Earth system based program to help students achieve science literacy. This program was designed to be connected across grade levels, and contents of the program were constructed to have meaningful interdisciplinary context. All the activities in the program were inquiry-based, and understanding of the nature of science was considered essential throughout the program. In addition, appreciation and stewardship for the Earth system were systematically emphasized on any grade level. Design of the program applied U.S. National Science Education Standards for the quality of and conditions for school science programs.

An Assessment of Korean Students’ Environmental Literacy

  • Shin Donghee;Chu Hyeeun;Lee Eunah;Ko Heeryung;Lee Moonam;Kang Kyunghee;Min Byungmee;Park Junehee
    • 한국지구과학회지
    • /
    • 제26권4호
    • /
    • pp.358-364
    • /
    • 2005
  • This study was initiated to understand what students know, how they feel, and how they act in the perspectives of environmental literacy. This study takes it a very serious problem that there has been no data about Korean students’status of environmental literacy so far. Based on the correct diagnosis of Korean students’ environmental literacy, environmental education in Korea, including national curriculum, teaching materials and strategy, would take the right way. This study accepts Simmon (1995)’s framework of environmental literacy, consisting of 5 areas, environmental knowledge, skills, affect, and behavior, which is consistent with general goals of environmental education. This study analyzed the relationship between areas in environmental literacy and factors contributing to improving students’ environmental literacy. This study also checked which factors, including age, gender, parents’ schooling, environmental education in schools, and students’ science-related attributes, contributed to improving students’ environmental literacy. The results of this study will help science educators keep in mind how important it is to teach science from the perspectives of environmental literacy.

글로벌 과학적 소양 함양을 위한 수업이 학생들의 과학의 본성에 대한 관점에 미치는 영향 (The Influence of Global Science Literacy-Oriented Instruction on Students' Views of the Nature of Science)

  • 유은정;오현석;김찬종
    • 한국지구과학회지
    • /
    • 제29권7호
    • /
    • pp.602-616
    • /
    • 2008
  • 본 연구의 목적은 글로벌 과학적 소양 함양을 위한 수업이 학생들의 과학의 본성에 대한 관점에 어떤 영향을 주는지 살펴보는 것이다. 연구 참여자는 8학년 65명의 남학생이며, '지구와 별' 단원에 대하여 5주 동안 글로벌 과학적 소양 수업을 실시하였다. 수업 전과 후에 학생들의 과학의 본성에 대한 이해정도를 살펴보았다. 연구 결과 단기간의 글로벌 과학적 소양 함양을 위한 수업으로 학생들의 과학의 본성에 대한 관점을 변화시키는 것은 어려운 과제임을 확인할 수 있었다. 그러나 사회학적 측면에서, 학생들의 과학의 본성에 대한 이해가 철학적, 심리학적, 역사학적 관점에서 보다 상대적으로 향상된 것을 발견할 수 있었다.

교육과정 변천에 따른 지구과학 영역의 과학적 소양 분석 (Analysis of Scientific Literacy on Korean Science Curriculum of Earth Science Contents)

  • 조미선;정진우
    • 대한지구과학교육학회지
    • /
    • 제9권3호
    • /
    • pp.269-275
    • /
    • 2016
  • 본 연구는 우리나라의 과학과 교육과정 중 과학적 소양이 교육의 목표로 제시된 7차 교육과정부터 2015 개정 교육과정까지 '과학' 과목의 지구과학영역 내용 변화를 과학적 소양의 측면에서 알아보기 위해 실시되었다. 지구과학 영역을 천문, 지질, 기상, 해양 내용으로 구분하여 과학적 소양의 요소 중에서 STS적인 요소에 초점을 두고 내용을 분석하였다. 천문과 기상 내용 영역에서는 7차부터 2015 개정 교육과정까지 모든 시기에서 과학적 소양의 측면이 나타났으며, 지질 영역에서는 2007 개정 교육과정, 해양 영역에서는 7차 교육과정을 제외하고 모든 시기에서 과학적 소양의 측면이 나타났다. 천문 내용 영역에서는 과학과 기술의 유용성이 강조되었고, 지질과 기상 내용 영역에서는 일상생활에서의 과학의 이용이 강조되었다. 해양 내용영역에서는 자원부족과 환경오염 등 과학관련 사회적 이슈가 강조됨을 알 수 있었다. 이 연구는 우리나라 과학과 교육과정을 과학적 소양이라는 새로운 측면에서 살펴보려는 시도로 차후 지구과학의 다른 영역 및 물리, 화학, 생물 과목으로 확대하여 내용을 살펴볼 수 있을 것이며, 더 나아가 기존의 물리, 화학, 생물, 지구과학이라는 과목의 테두리에서 벗어나 통합된 학문의 관점에서 과학적 소양을 알아볼 것을 제안한다.

Bringing Computational Thinking into Science Education

  • Park, Young-Shin;Green, James
    • 한국지구과학회지
    • /
    • 제40권4호
    • /
    • pp.340-352
    • /
    • 2019
  • The purpose of science education is scientific literacy, which is extended in its meaning in the $21^{st}$ century. Students must be equipped with the skills necessary to solve problems from the community beyond obtaining the knowledge from curiosity, which is called 'computational thinking'. In this paper, the authors tried to define computational thinking in science education from the view of scientific literacy in the $21^{st}$ century; (1) computational thinking is an explicit skill shown in the two steps of abstracting the problems and automating solutions, (2) computational thinking consists of concrete components and practices which are observable and measurable, (3) computational thinking is a catalyst for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education, and (4) computational thinking is a cognitive process to be learned. More implication about the necessity of including computational thinking and its emphasis in implementing in science teaching and learning for the envisioned scientific literacy is added.

The Trends in the U.S. and Korean Science Curriculum Reforms

  • Kwak, Young-Sun;Choe, Seung-Urn
    • 한국지구과학회지
    • /
    • 제23권2호
    • /
    • pp.194-206
    • /
    • 2002
  • This article describes the major themes to change in historical and philosophical perspectives of science education that lead the US and Korean science curriculum reform movements since 1957. Inquiry teaching and criticism of teaching science as inquiry in the late 1950s and the 1960s, Science-Technology-Society (STS) Curricula, and Science Literacy and the 1980s science literacy crisis are discussed. In the US, three major curricular projects as responses to the scientific literacy crisis are exemplary such as the Project 2061 sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Project on Scope, Sequence, and Coordination (SS&C) initiated by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), and the National Science Education Standards (NSES) published by the National Research Council. To identify how each set of national content standards differ, we compared specific content standards related to the theory of plate tectonics in Earth and Space science in grades 9-12 over the three national standards: Benchmarks of AAAS, NSES of the NRC, and SS&C of the NSTA. Against this historical background of the US science education reform movements, the curriculum reform movements in Korea is briefly discussed. In general, Korean science curriculum reform movements have reflected and resembled the recommendations of the US reform movements. In addition, it is important to note that throughout the history of curriculum revision in Korea, there have been continuing pendulum swings between a theoretical, discipline-centered curriculum and a liberal, humanistic, and student-centered curriculum, which pays more attention to students in terms of their interest and psychological preparedness. In conclusion, the sixth and seventh national science curriculum revisions reflect rather a student-centered movement by reducing technical and sophisticated topics, taking constructivism learning theory into consideration, and adding more STS related topics.

Exploring Preservice teachers' Understandings about Scientific Literacy embedded in Science Camp at Science Center

  • Park, Young-Shin;Chen, Angie Y.C.;Chen, Nelson C.C.
    • 대한지구과학교육학회지
    • /
    • 제6권1호
    • /
    • pp.1-12
    • /
    • 2013
  • 20 preservice teachers at college level participated in this study and interacted with students at elementary and middle school levels during science camp offered by science center in Taiwan. Preservice teachers displayed moderate (above the average, 4 point out of 5) understandings about scientific literacy and scientific views in all aspects of the nature of science before the camp. Then, the researchers designed science camp programs which were expected to promote students' scientific literacy; scientific knowledge, inquiry skills for experimentation as well as for argumentation, affective domain such as the attitude toward science and the understandings about nature of science and the relationship among STS (Science-Technology-Society), all of which were embedded in the programs. Preservice teachers seemed to perceive scientific literacy pretty well (over 4 point) before the camp, however, preservice teachers' understandings about scientific literacy were not much scored (around 3 point, but still moderate scores of average) as expected after concrete inquiry activities. The reasons why this happened could be that preservice teachers were not trained to employ theory into the context to be more practical or the researchers did not develop camp program which included the aspect of scientific literacy successfully. The discussion and implication were made in teacher education in that preservice teachers must be prepared how to bridge theory into practice, and informal science education in that educators at science centers must be trained to be experts in providing the envisioned educational programs to meet the goal of science education, scientific literacy.

스마트 기기 활용 설계 기반 STEAM 프로그램이 과학 흥미도와 융합인재소양에 미치는 효과 (The Effect of the Design Based STEAM Program Utilizing Smart Device for Interest in Science and STEAM Literacy)

  • 이상균
    • 대한지구과학교육학회지
    • /
    • 제8권3호
    • /
    • pp.240-250
    • /
    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of interest in science and STEAM Literacy through the use of the design based STEAM program utilizing Smart Device for elementary students. For the purpose of this study, a teaching plan and worksheet for students using STEAM Programs was developed and applied. The results of this study are as follows: First, the improvement in the interest in science score has statistically meaningful difference(p<.05). Second, the change in students^{\backprime} STEAM Literacy by applying the design based STEAM program utilizing Smart Device has statistically meaningful difference (p<.05). Third, according to the analysis of a questionnaire used to evaluate the program, students had a positive perception of the STEAM program and gained higher level of satisfaction about the lesson. Therefore, design based STEAM Program utilizing Smart Device applied in this study might be useful to improve STEAM Literacy, and can be expected to improve interest in science and should be widely applied to Science education.