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This case study examines environmental literacy among elementary students participating in an ecology club in New Taipei City. The ecological environmental on campus supports environmental education through a club for students which demonstrated an increase in environmental literacy over a two year period. This action research used observations, interviews, learning journals, learning lists and meeting minutes for two years.
In the first year, teaching methods were introduced that incorporated student hands-on experiences, creating their own activities and collaborative learning based on a ecological curriculum for maintaining ecological pond and training botanical commentator, it’s found that offering a challenging curriculum increases sensitivity to the environment and heightens activities among students, that increases their accomplishment and offers them recognition for their work. However, leaking of sufficient time of curriculum, co-work teacher and the curriculum of knowlegde of environmental concept, the curriculum becomes three classes every week in the second year. Also, 2 more co-work teachers are joined, and subject curriculum are increased as flogs, butterflies, birds, and vegetable garden in the air and it is kept for curriculum for maintaining ecological pond and training botanical commentator. These activities provides more chance to co-learning for students, developing the educational environmental curriculum for ecological pond and vegetable garden in the air. It is found that subject curriculum can build the knowledge environmental concept in system for students, sufficient experience and opration can let overall environmental literacy be upgrated, co-learning can improve the emotion of peer and learning effect, and co-teaching can help to promote the development of curriculum and growth of teacher.
Finally, based on research result, it is suggested : enrolling new members in club can have test for selection, using encourage system can upgrade the learning motivation and honor; It’s good that content of curriculum is simple, the plan of curriculum can be flexable to contain teaching resourses in living surrounding and content is thorough and abundon; Knowing how to use teaching methods like observations, experiences, playing games, incorporated student hands-on experiences, and collaborative learning, this can increase the interests in learning and accomplishment for students; Using co-teaching method can handle the learning situation for students, and adjust the content of curriculum and teaching method in time. As for the increasing the responsibility environmental behavior, the arrangement of curriculum should focus on the commitment on environment and responsibility on action for students. Also, let students increase the experiences of environmental action, in order to enhence the environmental behavior for them.
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