STS education is the education of integrating theory with practice, and it is also the education of cultivating students' correct scientific outlook and scientific social outlook. It requires science education to face modernization, pay attention to infiltrating technology education, let students experience the bridge function of technology between science and society, understand the comprehensive and integrated characteristics of science and technology development, and understand the social value of science and technology as the "first productive force".
It requires that science and technology be closely linked with daily life and production, combined with the reality of China and the region, and pay special attention to major social issues closely related to science and technology, such as population, energy and ecological environment. STS education plays a powerful role in promoting modern chemistry education, and modern chemistry education is also of great significance to STS education.
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STS education emphasizes the relationship between science, technology and society, attaches importance to the application of science and technology in social production, life and development, and takes this as the guiding ideology to organize and implement science education. It has the characteristics of integrity, comprehensiveness, extensiveness and openness.
In order to fully implement STS education thought in middle school chemistry teaching, it is necessary to reform the current teaching methods of programmed teaching, advocate students' active participation, willingness to explore and diligent hands-on, and cultivate students' ability to collect and process information, acquire new knowledge, analyze and solve problems, communicate and cooperate.
Actively promote the inquiry teaching method suitable for students' development. Inquiry teaching is a combination of heuristic, problem discussion and experimental inquiry teaching methods. A teaching mode in which teachers and students discuss problem-solving methods together in problem situations.
It requires teachers to break the traditional teaching framework of letting students follow the teacher's ideas, choose the teaching mode guided by teachers along the students' ideas, give full play to the students' main role, let students actively and consciously think, make bold attempts and dare to explore, so as to cultivate students' interest in inquiry, practical ability and innovative spirit in the learning process.