초등학생들이 가진 생물학적 적응 개념에 관한 조사 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to provide useful data in forming sound scientific concepts by investigating elemen-tary students' non-scientific concepts related to their concepts of biological adaptation, and by analyzing the generaland 6th grade elementary students in order to investigate their concepts of biological adaptation. Acording to the testresults, they formed scientific concepts in most questions. But they appeared to have many misconceptions in someparts which should be guided by the teacher's additional explanations rather than by the education curricula's focus.There are some cases where the 6th grade students had more misconceptions than the 5th grade students who werenot systemicaly taught the concepts of biological adaptation, for the reasons of strengthening or maintaining the mis-conceptions by confusing the contents of learning. Male and female students have diferent scientific concepts of dif-ferent questions according to their interest and atention. Therefore, it is necessary to develop various teaching-learning data which can help the teachers' additional explanations about the concepts of biological adaptation andinvoke students' interest and atention, and to sek appropriate measures to form sound scientific concepts amongteachers as well as students.