초등 과학 교과서에 제시된 ‘생태계 속 생물의 역할’과 관련된 과학 용어 분석

Abstract

The purpose of this study was analyzing about scientific terms, producers, consumers, & decomposers, in the ecosystem chapter of elementary science textbook for confirming problems and finding solutions about the presentation forms and contents of them. The applied analysis framework consist of Form and Content, two aspects. The Form aspect has four categories (paragraph, subheading, term, font) and the Content aspect has tree categories (roleexplanation, example, scavenger). The results were as follows: In the results of the forms aspect analysis, the forms of presented term and font in Korean science textbook become more obvious in changes of curriculums. Foreign science textbooks have subheadings and paragraphs for each term, and they have more obvious presentation of term and more information than Korean science textbook. In the results of the contents aspect analysis, all science textbooks have the explanations of `energy roles in ecosystems` as the intension and the examples of organisms as the extension. In local science textbook analysis results, science textbook has gradually improved to present the intension of all terms and have more diverse examples. All foreign science textbooks have the contents about scavengers, but they have different viewpoints on scavengers. Korean science textbook, on the other hand, have no contents about scavenger. For this reason, the difficulty may lies in the classification of the scavengers like earthworm by presented explanations and examples in a current science textbook. Therefore there are needs of the developments of the effective presentation forms and the contents about scavengers.