The investigation of Science Inquiry through cooperative learning to the five and six Grade student at the Remote Areas—simple machine as an example

曾炫鈞
國立高雄師範大學工業科技教育研究所研究生

朱耀明
國立高雄師範大學工業科技教育研究所教授

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate Science Inquiry with cooperative learning to the high Grade student at the Remote Areas in simple machine unit. The subjects were five and six grade student in chai-yi connty. The primary school was traslated to mixed-age teaching experimental school.The research was used Student Science Inquiry Scale, classroom observation, teaching journal, student interviews.
The results of the study were indicated that:
1.Student Inquiry Scale obtained data show that after a group cooperative learning teaching, students in the “discovery problems”, “collect information”, “observations” have more significant difference, but in the “design experiment”, “inductive analysis” performance and “construction of knowledge” not significant.
2.The questionnaire is based on the ability of scientific inquiry content validity. Questionnaire α value of 0.85, each component α is 0.63 to 0.96. The primary school is located the Remote Areas, there are four high grade school students. The ability of scientific inquiry is to take individual student analysis and discussion. Using descriptive statistics to analyze quantitative information.
3.The level of students’ scientific inquiry was related to individual students’ learning attitude. If students can actively learn and lead other students to learn, science inquiry will be stronger than that students inactively.
4.By the encouragement and support of the same group of students, passive quiet student experiments and gradual shift to actively participate in group learning activities, scientific inquiry is better than the performance.

Keywords :Cooperative learning, Science Inquiry , Nature and Living Science and Technology Fields