Stepping into Sharon Elementary School is like falling into a time machine. In the afternoon after the rain, a gust of wind whirled the fallen leaves. The brick wall building with red roof is elegant and majestic, and the school reveals the silence after years of baptism.
"hello! Here! " A voice broke the silence, and at the end of the line of sight, a smiling man waved hard. With equipment in his hand and things on his back, several teachers and students were sweating. He is Yu, the director of Salon Primary School and a qualified science teacher. He stayed in the salon for 30 years.
This day is the pre-competition training of the national science exhibition, and all science teachers are in a state of preparation. After a busy day of training activities, the students packed their things and prepared for the game immediately. A week later, the Earth Science Section of Sharon Primary School won the fourth place in the National Science Exhibition.
It seems not difficult for Sharon primary school to enter the whole country. However, in addition to a few students attending the science fair, many senior students also made special projects.
"What kind of learning will make students very profound? Just keep repeating and exploring, so we do special topics. Yu explained that although the students representing the school are mainly the "scientific research society" headed by scientists in the salon, in the salon, not only students from the scientific research society can do special projects, but senior students can also have their own works as long as they are willing to spend time.
In the past, science games were carried out in the whole school, which aroused students' enthusiastic participation. A few years ago, a student went back to junior high school and told him that some concepts of physics, chemistry and geography were not understood, which shocked Yu: "We actually attended these contents in the fifth and sixth grades, and we all did experiments. How can you forget them? He found that students could not deepen these scientific principles from games.
In the year of 20 1 1, Wang Tingya, a student who had just left the society, went to teach in the Natural Science Department of Sharon Primary School. He decided to carry out special research for 30 years, extending from scientific research organizations to the whole senior grade. I smiled and said, "Because I am not good at finding people, and I am very old in this school, the teachers think you can do it alone. She (Wang Tingya) just came in. They are all in the right place at the right time. 」
The special research is led by any natural science teacher in each class. Students are allowed to discuss it during a 40-minute lunch break or an hour after class, give advice and keep abreast of the progress. Doing special research will not only help you learn scientific knowledge, but also help your children build other abilities in the process of doing special research. "You have to look up information, read, use and organize information, and design equipment in the process. 」
A group of special studies lasted about five months, spanning the first and second semesters. Finally, in March next semester, we will hold a "Senior Project Research Competition", and invite experts and professors to serve as judges, so that the works produced by students can be treated with care and get professional advice and guidance, just like a small scientific exhibition.
The special research competition in senior three is the memory of many students in grade five and six. On the day of the competition, students will present their research results for half a year in front of experts and professors. Shalun primary school website information
"What we have seen in recent years is that there are hundreds of students at a time. I never worry about the enthusiasm of students to participate in special research. Even if he has to sacrifice a long nap time and school time, the natural classroom is always crowded.
Shen Yan, a science teacher who just arrived at the salon two years ago, said frankly that at first she was worried that no one wanted to attend. "After you start, you will find that this is an atmosphere and a culture. In my first year of teaching, several groups of students wanted to do it, but I said no because there were too many people in the classroom. 」
Teachers don't expect students to achieve special results because of the project. Xu Haojun, a science teacher at Sharon Primary School, believes that in the process of researching and exploring science, "what should be taught to students is what kind of learning methods can be adopted. What I teach you is a set of logic, under which you can handle things well and solve doubts. The whole process is to hope that students can cultivate correct learning attitude from special topics.
Therefore, in the topic selection, teachers do not force students to come up with novel schemes, nor do they have to deliberately find obscure topics, but encourage students to find topics from natural textbooks. "There are many experiments in textbooks, but there may be only one direction for children to know. In fact, experiments can have many directions. Huang Yulin, a science teacher at Sharon Primary School, explained.
There was once a sixth-grade student who adapted the unit experiment of "Food Preservation". The original textbook teaches students to control the temperature and humidity, and then observe the moldy state of toast. Students thought that "the acidity and alkalinity of aqueous solution" was taught in the fifth grade science textbook, so they were curious about "whether the acidity and alkalinity would affect the growth of mold", so they designed the experiment of soaking bread slices in acidic solution and alkaline solution.
Although the concept is simple, the students' design is complete. No matter the time schedule, research motivation and purpose, every detail is done voluntarily. The only problem is that the students are not sure whether the experimental results should be presented in the form of bar charts, pie charts or tables, which left a deep impression on Shen, the head of the group. "I brought it when I was in the fifth grade, and I feel that I have made great progress in one year. They have gone beyond the study of textbooks. 」
Shen also brought a group of students, whose academic performance is relatively low in the class. The naughty attitude of going to the nature class later also made Shen feel that students signed up for the project because they didn't want to take a nap.
However, she found that as students found the direction, the research was gradually on the right track. "In the past, they were considered incompetent by everyone. Unexpectedly, because of these difficult problems, they have confidence in themselves. Although the research results were not very good, the students finally told Shen that after completing the special research, they felt that the science class became easier.
In special research, experimental design is the most challenging part for students, and it is almost the key to success. Shalun primary school website information
"The child didn't realize what he had learned in the process. Sometimes I ask, how much have you learned? They said, is there? Wang Tingya lamented that it is difficult for students to feel their progress, but they are extremely concerned about the ranking of senior special research competitions. Therefore, it is a great challenge for teachers to constantly encourage students, let them see what they have learned and let them continue their studies.
Wang Tingya calculated her daily routine. She arrived at school at eight in the morning and left at eight in the evening. Huang Chunlin chimed in: "It's common to leave at eight o'clock. Sometimes holidays come at nine o'clock until nine or ten o'clock in the evening. Before the game, Xu Haojun and his students stayed until midnight. When he got home, it was already one or two in the middle of the night, which puzzled his parents and asked him, "Don't you always get off work at half past four when you are a teacher?" 」
Sometimes, teachers spend a lot of time, and students may not be able to devote themselves wholeheartedly. Parents prefer to send their children to remedial classes to prepare for further studies. Therefore, this year, in addition to accompanying students to do special projects, science teachers also act as cram school teachers for students, reserving time for children to do homework and prepare for exams. Students have problems, they will teach. Huang Chunlin said with a smile, "They will ask, Teacher, can you do math? Teacher, can you speak Mandarin? 」
Wang Tingya admits that Sharon's science department was lonely before, and they were always alone on campus after dark. However, in recent years, some changes have taken place in the school, and dance, music, track and field clubs have begun to develop. "I gradually feel that everyone has seen the growth of students and the shortage of teachers, and more and more people have joined this kind of teaching. 」
"I think this is the teacher's consciousness. We put students first, and we want to make these students better! " Huang Chunlin hit the nail on the head, how natural science becomes a major feature of the salon, just by heart.