The purpose of this study was to develop the teaching-learning materials for students` creativity in elementary school science class. For this, we asked some questions to both teachers and students: 25-item-questionnaires were given to 122 teachers in...
The purpose of this study was to develop the teaching-learning materials for students` creativity in elementary school science class. For this, we asked some questions to both teachers and students: 25-item-questionnaires were given to 122 teachers in charge of 5th graders and 6th graders in elementary schools located in Seoul, Inchon and Kyonggi province, and 20-item-questionnaires to 825 students of 5th grade and 6th grade in the same schools. The results of this study are as follows: most of teachers admitted the need of creativity education, but they taught class mostly with textbook only. The lack of students` divergent thinking and creative scientific activities in science class made it difficult to develop students` creativity. Besides, teaching-learning materials for whole brain learning were not enough. In case that the students did not make experiment in class, they liked VCR tapes or TP materials Students thought that the most effective materials for class are VCR tapes and next were worksheets. Not a few students answer they do hard only interesting experiments. Most of students wanted worksheets including various interesting activities like games, quiz, experiments, drawing, etc.