Scientific literacy is the core and foundation of quality education. Primary education is a critical period for students' physical and mental development. As a science and technology counselor, we must actively adapt to the needs of the development of the situation and actively explore new ways and methods for the development of science and technology education. After continuous exploration, I think that if we want to carry out science and technology education deeply and persistently, give full play to students' intelligence, and fully mobilize their enthusiasm for learning, loving and applying science, we must create an atmosphere for each student to participate in science and technology activities in a form that students are willing to accept, and cultivate students' practical ability and innovative spirit in practical exploration. We should persist in integrating science and technology education into the teaching of various subjects, and pursue "teachers have expertise; Students have special skills; The school has its own characteristics. " Seek development in competition and create characteristics in development. Take science and technology education as the leading factor, take activity classes as the starting point, and extensively carry out youth science and technology activities.
First, cultivate students' creative thinking through scientific and technological activities.
Creative thinking is not a wild guess, it must be attached to the existing knowledge and experience. Practice has proved that knowledgeable and experienced students may have more opportunities to produce new ideas and methods. Otherwise, without rich knowledge and experience, cultivating students' creative thinking will become an empty talk. Therefore, enriching students' knowledge and experience is the premise of cultivating students' creative thinking. In order to enrich students' knowledge and experience, our approach is:
First of all, teachers should use various ways to carry out inquiry activities.
1) Starting from the problems and small topics, try to quote the exploration and research mode of natural science education (science) and the experience and perception mode of culture and art education (liberal arts) as much as possible.
2) As far as possible, things and events close to students' study and life are used as the form of exploring small topics, and teaching design and implementation are carried out by simulating the working state of scientists.
3) Try to adopt a comprehensive approach, that is, in the process of education, students can not only receive ideological education, but also acquire knowledge and practical skills.
4) Break the limitation of time and space, and complete the educational content by activities, discussions, surveys and other forms.
5) Emphasis is placed on students simulating the working state of scientists, so that students can obtain direct practical skills of scientific inquiry through observation, recording, collection, arrangement, hypothesis, production, experiment, verification, discussion, comparison, classification and analysis.
Second, according to the teaching situation and real life examples, carefully design some open exercises, strengthen the training of students, and form a "school-based textbook" that meets the requirements of the times.
Third, we should carry out the inquiry project activities of comprehensive courses in a planned way, organize students to go to society and nature, broaden their horizons, broaden their thinking and increase their talents. Only in this way can students creatively organize and use existing knowledge and experience for thinking activities, and provide conditions for students' creative thinking.
American psychologist Rogers said: "There is no hierarchy in creativity. Students invent a new game as creative as Einstein's theory of relativity. " In the teaching process, how to give full play to students' main role, guide students to experience the learning process, and explore problems with their own methods, so as to cultivate students' innovative consciousness and put it into practice is the focus of the current primary school science and technology teaching reform. Teachers should be good at digging and publicizing innovative factors in teaching materials and teaching process in the process of selecting and handling teaching content, and take this as a "guiding point" to guide and stimulate innovative thinking.
Second, ignite the spark of students' wisdom through scientific and technological activities.
Practice is the source of "invention". "Invention and creation" is more formed in life practice.
1. Try to solve problems in various ways in the process of inquiry.
Curiosity and thirst for knowledge are both incentives to stimulate creative activities and motivation to carry out creative activities. Facing a pair of curious eyes, I am very willing to explore with my classmates in time, so that I can become a good friend of my children, find the answer to "why" with childlike innocence, reveal the mystery of knowledge, let children experience the joy of success, and let students combine their brains, hands and mouths in solving "why" activities, causing.
2. Verify the results in practice.
Practice is the only criterion for testing truth, and it is also the only criterion for testing the success of "small inventions". Through the practice of science and technology, not only the subject knowledge is taught to students, but also the quality that they are not afraid of failure and frustration is cultivated. Make them apply the scientific knowledge they have learned in teaching activities to their lives, improve their lives and make inventions; In turn, children learn new knowledge in their own invention and creation activities. Cultivate students' comprehensive ability. They learned to explore and study persistently like scientists.
Third, improve students' enthusiasm for innovation through scientific and technological activities.
Psychological research has proved that "innovative spirit and innovative ability are the most important and dynamic parts of human quality, and they are common and universal things for human beings." Everyone has the ability to innovate, but how to guide them in a proper way. Therefore, the teacher must tell the students: "As long as you are good at observation, you like to ask more questions."? And try to find the answer to the question, you will succeed. Everyone is a great man in the cradle. " So, how to improve students' enthusiasm for innovation through scientific and technological activities?
1. It is the most important objective condition to truly reflect students' dominant position in activities and treat students' democratic education environment with a scientific attitude and a democratic spirit. "Invention and creation" is characterized by openness. To encourage "invention and creation", we should give students a certain thinking space and a certain degree of freedom, so that students can think, imagine and ask questions freely. Be good at guiding and actively encouraging students' inventions; Reward students for their abnormal thinking; Even for some wrong ideas, don't simply deny them, but try to guide them to test them with practice. Only in this way can students' creative potential be stimulated to the maximum extent.
2, to carry out various forms of scientific and technological activities.
1) to guide scientific papers and scientific production.
Small production of scientific papers, on the one hand, teachers draw up topics, which can be related to society and life; On the other hand, students can choose their own topics. On the basis of extensive mobilization, the organization form adopts the combination of point and surface, selects innovative and in-depth works, holds paper defense meetings and small-scale production exhibitions, and rewards them. Especially good, after being revised by the teacher, it is recommended to be published in relevant journals and participate in scientific papers and invention competitions for young people in cities and counties.
2) Organize various competitions and lectures. The competitions we organize can be roughly divided into three categories:
(1) Science and technology knowledge contest. This kind of competition is scientific, knowledgeable and interesting, mainly based on scientific popularization, and students participate in a wide range. Participants get various exercises by thinking and answering questions.
(2) Production competition. Mainly design and hands-on. It has successively held "Car Model, Ship Model and Modeling Competition", "Rubber Band Aircraft Blanking Competition", "Solar Energy Production Competition" and "robot contest".
(3) Operational competition. For example, computer operation competitions, remote-controlled cars, and robot-by-wire operation competitions. For this kind of competition, students' enthusiasm is very high, which can not only cultivate students' practical ability and creative ability, but also cultivate students' flexibility and adaptability.
In addition, we often hold some lectures on science and technology, such as astronomical knowledge, aerospace knowledge and robot series lectures. 4. Cultivate students' endless spirit of exploration through scientific and technological activities.
Cultivate students' innovative ability and teach them an idea at the same time; Every subject of knowledge will add new content at any time, and every technology has a more perfect way to make them realize that there are endless opportunities to display their talents and wisdom in life. Grandpa Tao Xingzhi, a famous educator in China, has long said in the Declaration of Creation: "Everywhere is a place of creation, every day is a time of creation, and everyone is a creator."
In a word, the goal of today's education is to cultivate innovative spirit and practical ability, stimulate people's potential and develop all-round quality with innovative ability as the core. Therefore, teachers should not only actively teach, but also mobilize students' learning enthusiasm, so that students can actively participate in and adapt to the teaching process. This requires teachers to teach students learning methods, from "I want to learn" to "I want to learn"; We should also encourage students to study creatively, cultivate their independent thinking ability, and turn all the cognitive materials provided by teachers into their own things through active and conscious thinking. The forms of science and technology education are flexible and varied, with rich contents, which can break through the limitations of textbook content and form, closely link with reality, reflect the latest scientific and technological achievements, and stimulate students' curiosity, interest, thirst for knowledge, sensitivity to new things, persistent pursuit of true knowledge and indomitable spirit of discovery, innovation, pioneering and enterprising. Maximize students' innovative spirit.