The purpose of this study is to devise a teaching program integrating Big6 skills into project-based learning of social studies. Applying Big6 skills as a learning scaffold, the teaching program helps students to enjoy project-based teaching modes, to cultivate basic information literacy and to promote abilities to learn better in social studies.
The research object is 34 students from the 4th grade of elementary school, and the action research is a two-stage and two-circle one. The researcher tried to understand the students¡¦learning status and get the whole picture of the teaching activity by means of collecting and analyzing data such as information literacy questionnaire, the scale for critical thinking test made by Chiu-Ching Chen, activity learning sheets, student inter-evaluations, student self-evaluations, teacher observations, teaching diaries and interview records.
The results of the study are as follows:
1. Big6 skills, integrated into the social project-based learning applying two-stage teaching, is suitable for grade four of elementary school.
2. The students who have experienced Big6 skills integrated into the social project-based learning do promote in information literacy, group learning, expression, listening and the ability of using Big6 skills.
3. Due to the shortage of the study time or the not suitable for study tools, the students¡¦critical thinking is not promoted after experiencing Big6 skills integrated into the social project-based learning.
4. The students consider the integration of information and the evaluation as the most difficult steps in the Big6 method.
5. Teachers and students both identify with Big6 skills integrated into the social project-based learning.
Finally, integrating the mentioned findings, the researcher offers some suggestions on the future teaching plan as follows:
1. Supply learning scaffold to promote students¡¦learning effects.
2. Integrate information course into language course can save time for learning.
3.Cultivate students¡¦abilities of reading, summarizing and integrating reading materials.
4. Help students to collect information from varied sources.
5. Extend teaching time and carry out each teaching steps.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0613107-101111 |
| Date | 13 June 2007 |
| Creators | Weng, Huei-chi |
| Contributors | Ming-charng Jeng, Shu-ching Yang, Hsueh-hua Chuang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0613107-101111 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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