An Analysis of Illustrations in the Unit ‘The Human in the Nature’ of High School Life Science Textbooks

Abstract

Illustrations in text books are the most influential material to students. So we have to analyze illustrations in text books. In this study, the number, sort, purposes of illustrations in the Unit ‘The Human in the nature’ of highschool Life Science textbooks was analyzed. The sort consists of ‘photograph (49.3 %)’ and many of ‘drawings’ and ‘graphs’. The main purpose of illustrations is for ‘providing materials 2’, followed by ‘motivation’, ‘providing materials 1’. According to the analysis of the purpose depending on the sort, ‘photograph’ is mainly used for ‘motivation’, ‘providing materials’, other illustrations like ‘drawing’ and ‘graph’ are mainly used for ‘providing materials’. The result of this study was very similar to existing studies, but there are some differences in ‘graph’. The Unit ‘The Human in the nature’ uses more graphs than any other subjects because it contains connections between various factors. For providing understandable and easily usable textbook, we have to increase the number of illustrations used for experiments. And we need more various illustrations that suit the learning situations for 고등학교 생명 과학I 교과서 ‘자연 속의 인간’ 단원 삽화 분석 93 motivating students effectively.