본 연구의 목적은 11학년 지구과학 수업에서 마인드 맵을 활용한 수업이 학생들의 과학 탐구 능력과 과학에 관련된 태도에 미치는 효과를 알아보는데 있다. 연구의 대상은 김해시에 소재한 공립 K고등학교 11학년 2개반을 대상으로 하였으며 1주에 2시간씩 10주 동안, 실험집단에는 마인드 맵을 활용한 수업을 진행하였고, 통제집단은 전통적 수업으로 진행하였으며 각 집단은 34명으로 구성되어 있다. 학생들의 과학 탐구 능력과 과학에 관련된 태도에 대하여 사전검사를 실시한 후 수업을 진행하였으며 수업후에 사후검사를 통한 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 1검증을 통해 학생들의 과학 탐구 능력에 미치는 영향에 대해 분석한 결과 실험집단과 통제집단간에 유의미한 차이가 있었다. 이것은 마인드 맵 활용 수업이 학생들의 과학 탐구 능력 향상에 효과적임을 의미한다. 둘째, t-검증을 통해 학생들의 과학에 관련된 태도에 미치는 영향에 대해 분석한 결과 실험집단과 통제집단 간에 유의미한 차이가 있었다. 이것은 마인드 맵 활용 수업이 학생들의 과학에 관련된 태도에 효과적임을 의미한다 결과적으로 마인드 맵을 활용한 지구과학 수업은 학생들의 과학 탐구 능력과 과학에 관련된 태도를 향상시키는데 더욱 효과적이다.

본 연구의 목적은 7학년 "해수의 성분과 운동" 단원에서 MBL 실험 수업이 학생들의 과학탐구능력과 그래프 작성 및 해석능력에 미치는 효과를 알아본 연구로 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 6차시에 걸쳐 MBL 수업을 실시하고 사후 t-검정을 통해 학생들의 과학탐구능력에 미치는 영향에 대해 분석하였다. 그 결과 실험집단과 통제집단 간 과학탐구 능력 결과에서 유의미한 차이가 나타나 MBL 수업이 학생들의 과학탐구능력 향상에 더 효과적임을 알 수 있었다. 둘째, 사후 t-검정을 통해 학생들의 그래프 작성 및 해석능력에 미치는 영향에 대해 분석하였다. 그 결과 실험집단과 통제집단 간에 그래프 작성능력에서는 유의미한 차이를 보이지 않았으나, 그래프 해석능력에서는 두 집단 간 유의미한 차이를 나타내고 있어 MBL을 활용한 수업이 학생들의 그래프 해석능력의 향상에 더 효과적임을 알 수 있었다.

영재교육에 대한 관심과 대상의 증가로 영재교육 프로그램 개발에 관한 연구가 많이 진행되고 있지만 영재들의 다양한 흥미와 요구에 부합되고 인성측면을 강조할 수 있는 지구과학 영역의 교육활동 자료 개발은 부족한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구는 중학교 과학영재 학생들을 대상으로 지구과학 분야에 대한 능동적 소집단 협력학습 프로그램을 개발하고 개발된 프로그램이 과학영재들의 과학 창의적 문제해결력과 과학탐구능력 및 학습태도에 미치는 효과를 알아보았다. 그리고 능동적 소집단 협력학습 프로그램을 적용한 후 학생들의 수업프로그램에 대한 인식을 조사하였다. 본 연구의 결과 개발된 능동적 소집단 협력학습 프로그램은 영재들의 과학 창의적 문제해결력과 학습태도에 있어서 유의미한 증가를 보였다. 또한, 능동적 소집단 협력학습은 학생들의 수업에 대한 흥미도와 만족도 및 참여도를 높일 수 있고 정의적영역에도 많은 영향을 끼치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 교사 설명 위주의 수업이 아니라, 학생 중심의 다양한 활동적 수업이 진행되었고 긍정적 상호작용을 위한 급우들과의 토의 및 토론을 할 수 있었기 때문이다. 이는 능동적 소집단 협력학습을 통하여 다른 학생을 배려하고 서로 조화를 이루며 의견을 주고받을 수 있도록 소집단 구성원 사이의 상호작용을 촉진했기 때문으로 인식된다.

본 연구의 목적은 수준별 수업에서 심화 보충형 수준별 교육과정을 적용하였을 때, 수준별 수업의 적용 시기가 학습자의 과학 학업 성취도와 과학에 관련된 태도에 미치는 효과를 알아보고자 하였다. 이에 대한 연구 결과는 첫째, 적용시기를 달리한 수준별 수업은 매 차시 개념주제단위로 심화 보충과정을 실시한 실험집단이 단원 말에 심화 보충 과정을 실시한 비교집단에 비해 학생들의 학업성취도를 높이는데 효과적이었다. 둘째, 적용시기를 달리한 수준별 수업은 매 차시 개념주제단위로 심화 보충과정을 실시한 실험집단이 단원 말에 심화 보충과정을 실시한 비교집단에 비해 상위집단의 학생들에게는 효과가 없었다. 그러나 하위집단에서 학생들의 학업성취도를 높이는데 효과적이었다. 셋째, 적용시기를 달리한 수준별 수업은 매 차시 개념주제단위로 심화?보충과정을 실시한 실험집단이 단원 말에 심화 보충과정을 실시한 비교집단에 비해 과학에 관련된 태도의 5가지 하위 영역 중에서, '과학적 태도의 수용', '과학수업의 즐거움', '과학에 대한 직업적 관심'에서 긍정적인 영향이 있었다.

본 연구는 Klopfer의 교육목표 분류를 이용하여 한국의 제7차 교육과정의 중학교 7학년 과학과의 교육목표와 제7차 교육과정에 따른 중학교 교과서에 나타난 학습 목표를 분석하여 교과서에 반영된 교육목표가 교육과정상의 요구 목표와 어느 정도 부합하는지를 알아보고 문제점을 분석하여 제시함으로써 교육과정에서 요구하는 목표와 교과서가 연계성을 가지도록 하는데 있다. 연구결과 제7차 교육과정의 과학과 교육목표는 Klopfer의 교육목표 분류5의 조작적 기능(G.0)을 제외한 전 범주에 걸쳐 그 목표를 설정하고 있으며, 정의적인 영역(범주 H.0~I.0)을 더욱 강조하고 있다. 그러나 제7차 교육과정의 중학교 교과서는 NSTA의 권장 목표 비율과 비교해 볼 때 인지적 영역에 더욱 비중을 두고 출판되었으며, 교과서에 지향(범주 I.0)에 관한 목표가 전혀 언급되지 않고 있었다.

Recently, Korea’s interest in environment protection is increasingly growing, and Korea realizes the seriousness of environmental pollution and national movement to minimize the effect is arising. As part of the movement, the need of environmental education in elementary schools is on the rise. This study aims to develop integrated environmental experience programs allowing students to have experience activities in forests, rivers, and seas that they can approach easily around them and to have environmental education through various plays. In addition, the study purposes to compare general educational education programs in actual education in terms of the effect of the program on students’ environment attitudes. This study was conducted to 50 fourth graders in two classes of S elementary school in Busan, and the 25-student comparative group had the normal educational education program that is mostly being performed in actual education while the 25-student treatment group had the survey on environmental attitude after a class using an integrated environmental experience program. The survey content is about environmental attitudes, and it consists of six subjects such as general environment, environmental pollution, energy, water resources, recycling, and animal protection and has 7 or 8 items by each subject which is divided into eight sub-items including sensibility, belief, values, spontaneity, criticism, patience, attention and interest. The findings are as follows. First, the integrated environmental experience program has a more positive effect on environmental attitudes than the general educational program. In particular, it is really effective about the topic of animal protection among students’ environmental attitudes. Second, the integrated environmental experience program has a more positive effect on values and interests than the general environmental education program.

The consciousness of environmental education has increased for the last decades, and schools make efforts for education in the systematic environment. To keep pace with trends such as the open school and the open class, students, teachers and parents are actively participating in environmental education programs. Parents’ active participate in environmental education programs will provide excellent basis to operate environmental education efficiently and advise fruitful operation of environmental education programs. In addition, as parents play an important role of deciding the students’ life habits or attitudes about environment, their participation is greatly meaningful. This study was conducted to 203 fourth and fifth graders in M elementary school in Ulsan city that operated the model school for protecting the forest from March to December, 2009 and their parents in order to examine the effects of parents’ participation in environmental education programs, and the results are as follows. First, the student group with parents who participated in environmental education programs showed higher interest in surrounding environment of the school. Second, the student group with parents who participated in environmental education programs showed higher environment sensitiveness and environmental practice intention. Third, the parent group who participated in environmental education programs showed higher environmental sensitiveness and environmental practice intention. Fourth, the parent group who participated in environmental education programs showed higher satisfaction about the program. As the result of the study, environmental education programs with parents’ participation attracted their active interest and participation about school environment problems, and a lot of conversation and attention between students and parents who participated in environmental education programs improved the students and their parents’ environmental sensitiveness and environmental practice intention.

Since the effect of environmental education at class using textbooks or materials related to environment is limited, the importance of activities for field experience is getting increased day by day. Thereby, the education tends to change into the type of education providing students with direct environmental experience. Students attending the science high school have excellent aptitude and ability for science and will lead the development of science in the future. Now it is urgent to develop various experiential programs which are helpful for them to establish desirable values on environment. However, the field of environmental education that allows science high school students equipped with ample environmental knowledge to improve environment sensitivity and have proper environment awareness is quite restricted as of now. Natural exploration activities are the programs which provide science high school students having lack of chance for environmental education with good opportunities to contact nature and also play significant roles in arousing their interest in issues related with environment. Therefore, it is thought that they will let science high school students explore the natural features of Korea, understand the importance of preserving environment and ecosystem profoundly, and encourage environmental awareness and will of environmental practice. Thereupon, with the study subjects of 121 first and second graders at U Science High School, this article analyzed their recognition of the necessity for environmental education and environmental pollution problems before and after the natural exploration activities, and conducted a survey on their satisfaction after the natural exploration activities and analyzed it. The result of this research is as follows. First, it was shown that the natural exploration activities were effective to raise the science high school students’ awareness of issues related with environmental pollution. Second, the natural exploration activities had effect upon enhancing the students’ willingness of environmental practice. Third, there was statistically significant correlation between the science high school students’ satisfaction with the natural exploration activities and their achievement in the science subject. Fourth, there also was a statistically non or weakness significant correlation between their satisfaction with the natural exploration activities and preference for the science subject. In particular, it was found that students preferring biology indicated higher satisfaction.

Today’s fundamental purpose of environmental education is to fulfill people’s desire of living in a pleasant environment and at the same time promoting individualistic and collective environmentally friendly behaviors. In order to achieve these purposes, it is very important that each person holds an environmentally friendly mind that constantly tries to preserve and protect the environment which should be acquired through experiencing the importance of the environment. In order to increases the sense of attachment of people and the natural environment, the direction of environmental education should carry out education on environment related knowledge and the condition of environment damage side by side. The direction of environmental education should consider the cultivating student’s awareness for active participation on matters related to the environment and to change their behaviors towards the environment. This study has tested the effect of reflective writing activities about the environment on the environmental sensitivity and willingness to act of 5th grade primary school students. For the sole purpose of this study, 70 students out of 141 5th graders of M Primary School were divided as the experimental group, and another 71 students were divided as the control group. The experimental group participated in 10 activities in where they were asked to express their thoughts and feelings in writing regarding 10 environmental problems occurring near the M Primary School. The control group participated in 10 environmental education lectures focusing on the lecturer. The results were as following. First, the reflective writing activities about the environment were effective in the environmental sensitivity of primary school students. Second, the reflective writing activities about the environment can affect the environmental willingness to act of primary school students. Third, there was a statistically significant correlation between environmental sensitivity and environmental willingness to act.

This research was composed over a period of 10 times and was performed to be conducted in an environmental education class for 4 months from September to December of 2008 by selecting 32 experimental group students and 32 control group students from OO Middle School in the Busan area. An environmental education program utilizing IIM(independent investigation method) was composed by selecting a theme for environmental education among the environmental curriculum in middle schools. The results of analyzing the effects which influence environmental sensitivity and environment-friendly behaviors after applying the environmental education program utilizing IIM are as follows. First, it was revealed that the environmental education program utilizing IIM is more effective among experimental group students than control group students in regards to environment-friendly sensitivity. Second, it was revealed that the environmental education program utilizing IIM is more effective among experimental group students than control group students in regards to environment-friendly behaviors. Third, it was seen that even students responded very favorably toward environmental education program utilizing IIM.

Today, environmental pollution and destruction due to the industrialization of our modern society have been the global issues. Although now we can lead affluent lives through science technologies and economic development, these environmental problems have resulted in striking the harmonious balance between human beings and nature and threatened human lives with abnormal weather caused by the global warming, destruction of the ozone layer, and El Nino phenomenon, acid rain, decrease in species diversity, movement of hazardous materials, and harmful waste increase. We are aware of the importance of environmental education, but in reality, it seems impossible to implement appropriate environmental education on account of our educational climate which exclusively focuses on the entrance examination. However, environmental education is the most ultimate solution for those problems in that only when students understand our environment fully and grow habits to protect it through environmental education, the present environmental problems can be solved and more serious problems that can be resulted in the future can possibly be prevented. Thus, this study has examined the effect of using image media in the environment subject on students’ environmental sensitivity. According to the results, it was shown that it had positive effects on ‘sensitivity of environment’, ‘attitudes towards environment’, and ‘environmental affinitive behaviors’.