Twenty-two brother schools collected tens of thousands of fresh and tender vegetable seedlings. Recently, Jingming Primary School in Shangshi Town, the core school of Suixian Science Education Association in Hubei Province, launched the "Seeding Action", which set off a popular science boom in the county education system.
An ordinary rural primary school was rated as "Excellent School for Teenagers' Scientific Investigation and Experience Activities" for five consecutive times, and was rated as "National Advanced Collective of 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 education consortium and the promotion of education reform in the county. Its development path should start with a package of space seeds.
"Space Seeds" Inspire Scientific Dreams
Stepping into Jingming Primary School, a strong scientific atmosphere came to my face. In the corridor of "a century of scientific life", many scientific masters are awe-inspiring.
In the science classroom, a slogan is particularly eye-catching: every child is a seed and 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 20 17, Jingming primary school made small achievements in popular science education, and was awarded a package of space seeds by Hubei Association for Science and Technology after many efforts. "There are six vegetable varieties such as cucumber, pepper and eggplant, and the seeds are full. If we get the treasure. " Wang Jiawang can't hide his excitement so far.
The school has built a planting base of 1800 square meters, where "space travelers" have settled down.
Subsequently, the school opened planting courses, planted more than 200 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 10000 observation logs and 120 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. "Planting+Meteorology" enriched the popular science teaching.
The school also integrates planting courses with science, art, Chinese and other disciplines. Children read, draw and write seeds to stimulate their dreams of science, space flight and innovation. The seed courses developed by the school have been rated as "Top Ten Excellent Courses" in the national new education, and the seed museum of 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, evolved into a series of actions to promote popular science education.
The school has set up a scientific laboratory, an intellectual property room, a scientific and technological innovation room, a seed museum, a meteorological science museum, a campus science popularization meteorological station and a scientific experience education practice base to carry out the position construction action. "Three rooms, two museums, one station and one base" is open to the public free of charge, with an annual reception of16,000 people.
The course development action has developed four sections, namely "Magic Seed", "STEM Course", "Intellectual Property and Innovation" and "Meteorological Exploration". Each grade 16 top-quality courses meet six grades 1 science class every week.
In the "five visits" to popular science, students explored 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.
After scientific investigation, the student's work "Investigation on the Present Situation and Disposal of Rural Garbage in Counties" won the first prize at the provincial level and the third prize at the national level. The model of "household classification, village collection, town transfer and county treatment" of rural garbage was adopted and popularized by the county government. In summer, I conducted a classified survey of municipal waste in Fuzhou, and competed with children from urban and rural areas all over the country, and won the first prize of the national scientific survey.
Participate in actions to improve the scientific quality of the whole people. 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 holding big hands" is helpful to improve the scientific quality of the whole people.
The five major actions point to one goal-to cultivate 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 it is urgent."
In the laboratory, the students' innovative works are dazzling and amazing, and an artificial weather station is lifelike; As soon as the sun shines, solar cars gallop; A set of pumped storage model integrates the energy conversion functions of wind, light, water and electricity, and is called "super battery" by children.
Today, three students' inventions in our school won national practical patents, and many parents praised them: "These little guys have done something for scientists."
Science popularization association spreads scientific "seeds"
A seed can grow into a towering tree; One side is fertile soil, which can produce various colors.
For many years, Jingming primary school has been implementing the "open school" model. Hire four science and technology counselors to establish an expert studio; Sun, an academician of China Academy of Sciences, made a special trip to Beijing to give a wonderful report on popular science. In the Orchid Expo Park near the school, there is also a research base set up by the school.
Deeply ploughing the fertile soil of popular science, Jingming Primary School has formed a good demonstration effect. Since the beginning of this spring, the science associations and education departments in Hubei, Henan, Shaanxi, Guizhou and other places have invited teachers from this school to teach, and more than 10,000 teachers and students from 32 counties and cities in 9 provinces have come to observe and study.
With the pace of visiting delegations all over the country, 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, Suixian established the Suixian Science Education Consortium with Jingming Primary School as the core to promote the sharing, interaction and common progress of science education resources among schools. At the same time, there are 18 integrated education associations and 9 co-construction education associations covering the whole county.
The mission is on the shoulder. Jingming Primary School broadened its horizons and put forward the working idea of "hanging up the horizontal connection and radiating downwards" of the popular science education association, "hanging up" the Youth Science and Technology Center of China Association for Science and Technology, and inviting popular science experts from provinces, cities and counties to come to the school for guidance; The four county-level departments of "Lian Heng" joined hands to carry out the scientific investigation and experience activities of "building dreams through science and technology, helping double reduction"; Twenty-two primary and secondary schools in "radiation" county have continuously expanded the breadth, depth and height of popular science education.
Today, the space vegetable seedlings presented by Jingming Primary School have taken root in the brother schools. Shen Yong, director of the Education Bureau of Sui County, said emotionally: "With the reform and empowerment, popular science education will flourish and bear fruit on the land of Sui County."