The Effects Of Different Demonstrated Figures And Task Difficulties To4-5Years Old Children

Paper folding is of great significance to kids in the art teaching course in the kindergarten. It is a good activity conductive not only to the development of their muscle, imagination and creativity, but also their comprehension of geometric figures and abilities of stereoscopic thinking. Its importance is demonstrated in the "Manifestation and creation" of the objective of art domain in the book The Guidelines of the Learning and Development of3to6-year-olds, in which4to6-year-old kids are required to use various materials to express what they see and think.Paper folding, with only one piece of moderately thick paper, is an easy teaching activity in the kindergarten. In paper folding teaching courses, teachers generally adopt step-by-step demonstration:during the teaching process, kids will follow teachers step by step till the end. For the paper folding teaching in the kindergarten, some studies have shown that the demonstration pictures are helpful, but as to how schematic pictures and sketched line affect kids’paper folding and which aspect of effects are more distinguished, there is no answer. Given this, a research based on the three traditional methods (step-by-step demonstration, step-by-step demonstration with schematic pictures and step-by-step demonstration with sketched line) is conductive to the paper folding teaching for kindergarten teachers.This study with120participants and mixed experimenting design of3(Groups: control group, schematic group and line group)×2(material difficulty:easy, difficult), probes into how step-by-step demonstration with schematic pictures and step-by-step demonstration with sketched line affect the paper folding of the second-grade kids in the kindergarten. Results show that:first, the effect of step-by-step demonstration with schematic pictures is better than the step-by-step demonstration alone in terms of the time, passing rate and the number of helps called from teachers and companions; second, step-by-step demonstration with schematic pictures is better than step-by-step demonstration with sketched line; third, compared with easy work, sketched pictures give kids more help in doing difficult work.