Title :
Design and Effectiveness of Scientific Inquiry Learning Based on Campus Weather Station
Author :
Qingchao, Ke ; Xiufang, Ma ; Guangyan, Han
Author_Institution :
South China Normal Univ.
Abstract :
Scientific inquiry (SI) is the core of science learning. The application of scientific inquiry teaching practice must be supported by a good learning environment. This paper firstly elaborates the SI teaching model and its characteristics of information-based SI learning environment, and then explores the construction of weather inquiry learning environment in primary school and its application strategies by taking "campus weather station" as an example. Lastly, the paper analyzes the effectiveness of scientific inquiry learning environment on improving the students\´ scientific inquiry ability by means of the nonequivalent control group teaching experiment.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; educational institutions; geophysics computing; meteorology; teaching; campus weather station; nonequivalent control group teaching experiment; primary school; scientific inquiry learning; scientific inquiry teaching practice; weather inquiry learning environment; Application software; Computer science; Earth; Education; Educational institutions; Geoscience; Information technology; Meteorology; Software design; Software engineering; Campus Weather Station; Scientific inquiry; learning environment;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2008 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan, Hubei
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3336-0
DOI :
10.1109/CSSE.2008.2