초등학교 재량활동에 적용 가능한 상추 기르기 과학 탐구 프로그램이 저학년과 고학년의 기초탐구능력에 미치는 영향

Abstract

This study has a purpose to research the effects of 'Horticulture-science integrated program based on growing lettuce' on basic inquiry skills for lower and upper grades of elementary school. For this purpose, the class of the second and fifth grade students was divided into a control group and a experimental group respectively. In the experiment group of second and fifth grades, the horticulture-science integrated program was provided for total eight times, one hour thirty minutes each from 1:00 to 2:30 pm every week, through the discretionary activity time from September 11 to November 6 2012. After being offered horticulture-science integrated program based on growing lettuce, total basic inquiry skills score of both lower grades and upper grades are increased by 3.89, 1.76, respectively. Total basic inquiry skills score of the lower grades had 2.13 point higher improvement compared to the upper grades. Control group of the lower grades had improvement on classification, measurement, inference, expectation parts except observation with no significantly(p>0.05). However, the experimental group of lower grades improved in all search factors of observation, classification, measurement, inference, and expectation as the result of post test. As the result of implementing the t-test to find out any statistical implication, there was a significant difference(p<0.01). As the result of post test, the experimental group of upper grades improved significantly in search factors of classification and inference and the control group of upper grades improved significantly only in search factors of classification. Keywords: Garden, Horticultural activity, Observation, Science