초등학교 2학년 ‘봄’ 교과서의 ‘봄 나들이’ 단원을 활용한 PBL 기반 환경교육 자료 개발

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop the environmental education materials based on PBL utilizing ‘spring outing’unit of elementary school 2nd grade ‘spring’ textbook in order to perform effective environmental education. To achieve this study`s purpose, the research procedures was as follows. First, the documentary research was conducted on the character of environmental education for the low grade in elementary school, the educational meaning of PBL in environmental education and the educational meaning of PBL for the low grade in elementary school. Second, on the basis of the documentary research, PBL problems were developed though the spring outing’unit of elementary school 2nd grade ‘spring’ textbook on the subjects of environmental education. On the problem development, the emphasis was on considering the characteristics of learners and the purpose of the national education curriculum. The validity of the developed problems was checked and revised through self-evaluation and feasibility assessment of experts. Third, to apply to the lesson using the developed PBL problems, a teaching-learning process is applied to Jo`s(2006) process model, which consists of 5 steps-meeting a problem such as making a troubleshooting plan, exploration/re-exploration, devising a solution, and presentation/evaluation. And evaluation plan is built up to assess not only the result of learning but also the whole process of learning by diversifying assessors, evaluation areas and evaluation methods. Fourth, the final education materials were completed by modifying and supplementing using the feasibility assessment of experts.