This study was conducted to explore the geographic teaching method for elementary social studies, focusing on the water cultural landscape of Jeju Island Gangjeong, and the summarized conclusions are as follows. First, the local landscape is the most ...
This study was conducted to explore the geographic teaching method for elementary social studies, focusing on the water cultural landscape of Jeju Island Gangjeong, and the summarized conclusions are as follows. First, the local landscape is the most suitable object for learners’ identity formation and experiencing geographical thinking, and the class to explore these local landscapes becomes the basis for acquiring living knowledge. Second, the ICAP framework is a useful theory for how students perform their learning and how to design instructional plans and activities to increase student participation. Through the appropriate combination and design of each mode, higher cognitive participation and learning improvement should be achieved. Third, despite the geographical environment in which Jeju Island is made up of volcanic islands and natural water is valuable, Gangjeong, Jeju, has a unique Jeju Island Gangjeong water cultural landscape with a strong regional identity due to its rich water abundance. This is largely divided into a river landscape and a spring water landscape. Fourth, the plan for exploring the Jeju Island Gangjeong water cultural landscape was designed by dividing it into before, during, and after the exploration using the ICAP framework. Prior to the exploration, it was composed of Passive and Active modes so that learners could acquire overall knowledge and information about the Gangjeong water cultural landscape of Jeju. During the exploration, it was designed in Passive, Active, and Constructive modes so that knowledge of the Gangjeong water cultural landscape of Jeju can lead to productive activities. Finally, after the exploration, it was composed of Constructive and Interactive modes so that more constructive and interactive learning can be achieved.