The purposes of this study were to survey and analyze the internet web-site to use for teaching earth science in elementary science education, and then to analyze its effects on students' accomplishment and recognition.
For these purposes, the web- s...
The purposes of this study were to survey and analyze the internet web-site to use for teaching earth science in elementary science education, and then to analyze its effects on students' accomplishment and recognition.
For these purposes, the web- site related to elementary earth science were searched and analyzed. Also, in order to manage a class, four classes were selected from sixth grade of elementary course and divided into two groups: two classes were assigned to a experimental group, the other two were belonged to a comparative group.
The experimental group was taught by learning model of using web-site, and the comparative group was worked by traditional learning model. Before and after teaching, the students' accomplishment was tested using a test paper. And then, to analyze their results, the statistics was used. Student's recognition learning with web-site has been surveyed and analyzed.
The results are as follows:
1. As a result of searching internet web-sites, meaningfully usable web-sites in a field of elementary earth science education were summed up to 79 sites: 15 sites in a field of meteorology, 23 sites in geology, 25 sites in astronomy, and 16 sites in common aspects.
2. After teaching using web-site, the average score of experimental group was higher than that of comparative group in a part of students' accomplishment.
3. Teaching using web-site didn't have statistically meaningful effects on boys and girls in a part of students' accomplishment.
4. Boys liked new contents and various materials. On the other hand, girls liked to select their own subjects and to repeat to study them.
5. The students recognized studying science with web-site affirmatively: 68.9% of students felt a great interest in using web-site and 89.2% of students answered that they wanted to learn using web-site later.
6. In a level of accomplishment and understanding of learning with web-site, lower level students felt more difficulty to use internet.
We suggested that the learning using web-site has affirmative effect on students' accomplishment and recognition for learning with internet web-site. This affirmative effect is caused by these merits students are able to have free and independent works regardless time and place, and get access easily to new and various materials, and they can experience impossible experiments indirectly through simulation.