A study on the effects of a field trip experience by 1st and 2nd grade elementary school students at Du Jiao Sian Farm in Chiayi County

• Main Authors: Hung-Che Lin, 林宏哲
• Other Authors: Yui-Dung Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/myxj55

碩士 === 國立嘉義大學 === 森林暨自然資源研究所 === 97 === 【ABSTRACT】 Under the trend of environmental conservation, the education of Ecology has shown its importance. Meanwhile, with the prosperous development of leisure agriculture, school field trips to leisure farm join the trend as well. The study targeted 1st and 2nd grade elementary school students and adopted the “pretest and posttest” method to understand the effect of a field trip held in Chiayi County Du Jiao Sian Farm. The approaches applied included paired-sample test, independent sample test, and one-way analysis of variance. The study revealed: 1. The posttest scores were significantly higher than pretest scores in terms of three field trip teaching effects - animal ecology, animal and planet ecology, and plant ecology, showing that the effect of the field trip was outstanding. 2. There was no significant difference on the effect of Du Jiao Sian Farm field trip between genders. 3. The effect of field trip on 1st graders were more significant than that of 2nd graders because of 1st graders’ started off with less ecological knowledge, higher motivation, and paid more attention 4. The pretest score of students who spent less time reading science books and watching science channels were comparatively low. After the field trip, however, the difference between this type of students and those students who enjoy reading science books and watching science channels were lessened. 5. Fathers’ educational background did not influence the effect of field trip. 6. The pretest scores of students whose mothers had elementary or junior high school degree are lower than that of students whose mothers had a more advanced educational background. After the field trip, however, the learning effectiveness of the former was better than that of the latter, showing a greater process has been made. Thus, field trips have an educational function for balancing the acquisition of knowledge in different social levels; the benefit of group learning in field trips is better than that of individual learning guided by parents; during the field trip, students in small class can better concentrate and perceive. However, the ecology concept of 1st and 2nd graders may be varied depending on the different regions in which they are located. In addition, according to feelings scale, 1st and 2nd graders have positive feedback on Chiayi County Du Jiao Sian Farm, and so is their learning effectiveness.