The scientific and educational reform
Tens of thousands of fresh and tender vegetable seedlings "planted" by one seed were all collected by 22 brother schools. Recently, Jingming Primary School in Shangshi Town, the core school of Suixian Science Education Association in Hubei Province, launched the "Seedling Sending Action", which set off a popular science craze in the county education system.
an ordinary rural primary school has been awarded the national "Excellent School for Teenagers' Scientific Investigation and Experience Activities" for five times in a row, and has been awarded the "Advanced Collective of National Scientific Quality Work" and "National Meteorological Science Education Base-Demonstration Campus Meteorological Station" by China Association for Science and Technology. This year, Jingming Primary School was awarded the title of "Core School of Popular Science Education Consortium" with the establishment of an education consortium and the promotion of education reform in the county. The road to its development should start with a package of space seeds.
"Space Seeds" Inspire Scientific Dreams
When we entered Jingming Primary School, a strong scientific atmosphere came to our face. On the corridor of "Hundred Years of Scientific Life", many scientific masters made people respect each other.
In the science classroom, a slogan is particularly eye-catching: every child is the seed that grows into a pillar of the country. Wang Jiawang, secretary of the Party branch of the school, said: "It is this belief that leads us to set up planting courses, open the door to popular science and step into the hall of science."
As early as 217, the popular science education in Jingming Primary School achieved little success. After many efforts, it won a package of space seeds from Hubei Association for Science and Technology. "There are six vegetable varieties such as cucumber, pepper and eggplant, and the seeds are full. If we get the treasure." Wang Jiawang cannot hide his excitement so far.
The school has built a 1,8-square-meter planting base where "space guests" have settled down.
Later, the school opened planting courses, planted more than 2 kinds of plants, and established 22 planting societies. Students planted, observed and kept diaries, and compared the similarities and differences between space vegetables and ordinary vegetables, forming more than 1, observation logs and 12 popular science reports. Their persistence touched the local meteorological department, and the aided campus weather station was built next to the base. The children leaned over to farm and looked up at the sky, and "planting+meteorology" enriched the popular science teaching.
The school also integrates planting courses with science, fine arts, Chinese and other disciplines, so that children can read, draw and write seeds to stimulate their dreams of science, space flight and innovation. The seed courses developed by the school have been awarded the "Top Ten Excellent Courses" in the national new education, and the seed museum in the school has become a "popular science education base for young people" at the city and county levels.
Five actions to improve scientific literacy
The power of faith gathered and fermented in Jingming Primary School and evolved into a series of actions to promote popular science education.
The school has successively set up a science laboratory, an intellectual property room, a science and technology innovation room, a seed museum, a meteorological science museum, a popular science meteorological station on campus, and a scientific experience education practice base, and carried out position building actions. "Three rooms, two museums, one station and one base" is open to the public free of charge and receives more than 16, people every year.
The curriculum development initiative has developed four sections, namely "magic seeds", "STEM courses", "intellectual property and innovation" and "meteorological exploration", with 16 excellent courses in each grade, which meet the needs of six grades and one science lesson per week.
In the "Five Visits" popular science campaign, students explore the steps of science, from the school seed museum to Suizhou Meteorological Bureau, from the school base to the vast fields, from the street community to the enterprise factory.
scientific investigation was carried out, and the student's work "Investigation on the current situation and treatment of rural garbage in the county" won the first prize at the provincial level and the third prize at the national level, and the model of rural garbage "household classification, village collection, town transportation and county treatment" was adopted and promoted by the county government; In the summer, I conducted a classified survey of urban garbage in Fuzhou, and competed with children from urban and rural areas all over the country, winning the first prize of the national scientific survey.
participate in the national scientific quality improvement action. Every Arbor Day, Intellectual Property Day, Meteorological Day and other activities, teachers and students walk into the streets and communities and are active online and offline. "Small hands hold big hands" helps improve the scientific quality of the whole people.
The five major actions point to one goal-cultivating students' scientific interest and scientific literacy. Chen Jingde, a science counselor at Jingming Primary School, said: "Students in grades five and six, in particular, are in the golden period of cultivating innovative thinking, and there is no time to delay."
In the laboratory, students' innovative works are dazzling and amazing, and a manual weather station is lifelike; As soon as the sun shines, the solar car gallops; A set of pumped storage model integrates the energy conversion functions of wind, light, water and electricity, and is called "super battery" by children.
At present, three student inventions in this school have won national practical patents, and many parents praised them: "These little kids have done what scientists do."
Science popularization and education associations spread scientific "seeds"
A seed can grow into a towering tree; One side is fertile soil, which can bloom in various colors.
For many years, Jingming Primary School has implemented an "open school" model. Hire 4 science and technology counselors to establish an expert studio; Sun Wanru, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, specially came from Beijing to give a wonderful report on popular science. In the Orchid Expo Park near the school, there is also a research base opened by the school.
Jingming Primary School has formed a good demonstration effect by deeply cultivating fertile soil for popular science. Since the spring of this year, the science associations and education departments in Hubei, Henan, Shaanxi, Guizhou and other places have invited teachers from this school to give lectures, and more than 1, teachers and students from 32 counties and cities in 9 provinces have come to observe and inspect.
with the footsteps of observation groups from all over the world, the seed spirit and culture here spread everywhere like seeds, which is called "seed phenomenon".
how to amplify the "seed effect"? In March this year, with Jingming Primary School as the core, Suixian established the "Suixian Science Education Consortium" to promote the sharing, exchange and interaction of science education resources between schools. At the same time, there are 18 integrated educational associations and 9 * * * built educational associations, covering the whole county.
The mission is on the shoulder. Jingming Primary School has broadened its horizons, put forward the working idea of "hanging up horizontally and radiating down" for the popular science education association, "hanging up" the Youth Science and Technology Center of China Association for Science and Technology, and invited popular science experts from provinces, cities and counties to come to the school for guidance; Four county-level departments of "Henglian" joined hands to carry out the scientific investigation experience activities of "building dreams through science and technology, helping double reduction"; Twenty-two primary and secondary schools in the "radiation" county have continuously expanded the breadth, depth and height of popular science education.
Now, the space vegetable seedlings donated by Jingming Primary School have taken root and sprouted in the brother schools. Shen Yong, director of Suixian Education Bureau, said emotionally: "With the reform and empowerment, popular science education will surely spread its branches, blossom and bear fruit in Suixian land."