The Acquisition of Environmental Awareness of Elementary School Students: Taking 2nd graders for example

• Main Authors: CHEN PI-YU, 陳璧瑜
• Other Authors: 盧秀琴
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13524158082040527637

碩士 === 國立台北師範學院 === 數理教育研究所 === 91 === In the lower grades of the nine-year curriculum, nature science and living technology, social studies, art and the humanities are integrated as the life field. Thematic units are adopted for teaching and learning, which shows the emphasis on life-experience in the curriculum. Therefore, issues of environmental education are very appropriate to be incorporated in the life field of nine-year curriculum. In this research, activity curriculum relating to contents of courses was the leading role in teaching. The objective was environmental awareness and sensitivity. In practice, activity curriculum designed to fit students'' interests and abilities were incorporated into the life field of nine-year curriculum. To evaluate the teaching effects, the segmental ability index of environmental education in nine-year curriculum was used for showing students'' environmental awareness and sensitivity; the developmental levels of subjects'' role-taking abilities was used for figuring out students'' mental sensitivity. The conclusions are as follows : (1) The designed activity curriculum is a promotor for achieving the standards outlined in the segmental index of environmental education of nine-year curriculum. (2) All activities explore the dimensions of find and notice. The dimension of affection can be influenced by the different objectives designed in the curriculum --- emphasis on the recognition reveals less dimension of affection than emphasis on the experimental perception. Yet various activities with the same objective show that the order of those activities become a key factor affecting students'' dimension of affection. In other words, the internalization of the pre-experience can promote the affection. Study on the dimension of consideration shows the similarity to the dimension of affection. (3) As to the percentages of the higher level in the developmental levels of students'' role-taking abilities, second-graders were higher than first-graders.