The purpose of this study was to observe the effects of science writing class using explore activity sheet on the creative thinking activities and science processing skills of elementary school students.
As the subject, 2 classes in the 5th grade of ...
The purpose of this study was to observe the effects of science writing class using explore activity sheet on the creative thinking activities and science processing skills of elementary school students.
As the subject, 2 classes in the 5th grade of J elementary school located in B city were selected. Through the pre/post inspection design between experiment and comparison class, The units of science course in the first semester of 5th grade,『5. Flower』,『6. Strength of solution』,『7. What a leaf of plant does』, 『8. Journey of water』, 『9. Little creatures』were applied.
The results were as follows.
First, the quantitative analysis of science writing class using Explore activity sheet showed that it would be more effective in improving science processing skills of students who performed science writing.
Second, it was observed that it would be a little effective in improving the creative thinking activities of students who performed science writing using Explore activity sheet. Especially, through this, the science writing class using Explore activity sheet gave positive effect on the 'originality', one of the lower categories of the creative activities.
Third, it was observed that students who performed science writing using Explore activity sheet had a positive attitude toward Science. The results of analysis on the questionnaires for students showed that they became more interested in science writing more than ever before.