Application of 5E model in Natural Science teaching to develop students' nature-understanding competence in junior high school

Abstract

According to the Natural Science Curriculum 2018, nature-understanding competence is one of the three components of natural scientific competence. The expression of this competence is that students can perform some basic skills to understand and explain natural phenomena, demonstrating practical problems with scientific evidence. An important feature of teaching Natural Science is that students need to experience and discover things and phenomena of the natural through experiments and practical experiences, thereby forming scientific knowledge and apply knowledge to solve problems in life. The 5E is a model of science teaching in accordance with the educational philosophy of "student-centered" and is built on the theory of constructivist teaching, in which students gain new knowledge based on what they already know. Using the 5E model in teaching helps students to receive knowledge systematically and effectively. In this article, we analyze the correlation between 5E-model phases and expression of understanding nature competence, and design the lesson plan of "oxygen" Natural Science grade 6 by using the theoretical framework in related references. We also use the expert method in the practical investigation methods to get an idea about the competence structure in understanding nature and designing the teaching plan of the subject Oxygen in Natural Science 6.