Junior Science Project Developing Attention and Concentration Skills to Nurture a Sustainable Learning of Natural Sciences  

作　　者：Flora Teixeira e Costa Helena Pratas Ana Parames 

机构地区：[1]Centro de Estudos e Investigacao Aplicada [2]lnstituto Superior de Educacao e Ciencias, Lisboa, Portugal [3]Instituto Superior de Educacao e Ciencias, Lisboa, Portugal

出　　处：《US-China Education Review(A)》2014年第2期126-129,共4页美中教育评论（A）

摘　　要：Junior Science Project is a research focused on a strategy that is being implemented to prepare elementary students to better learn natural sciences. It intends to slowly involve children starting in the 1st grade into the critical thinking and scientific method, taking into account science as a practice that includes a structured body of concepts which can explain and predict observable phenomena, a way of thinking and a body of skills. These skills, for instance, attention and concentration are specific and yet simultaneously universally essential to any intellectual sustainable development. The project wishes to provide innovative didactic resources and to promote a teacher＇s friendly alternative strategy to initiate students into the scientific methodology. This research aims to develop skills to be used on natural science lessons in elementary school, while, other suitable approaches consider that science lessons in elementary school are to provide ideal opportunities to develop skills on children. The Junior Science Project is being implemented in two 1st grade classrooms of 11 children each at two urban private educational institutions in Oporto, Portugal--Horizonte College and Luso French College.

关 键 词：critical thinking science didactics in elementary school skills development 

分 类 号：G63[文化科学—教育学] G31