Geographic Theme Activities Design Research In Scientific Inquiry Learning Perspective

The new curriculum reform emphasizes the change of way of learning as a top priority. Scientific inquiry learning is placed on an important position. Since the implementation of the new curriculum, the research and practice of geographical scientific inquiry learning has made some progress in ten years. However, geographical scientific inquiry learning has not yet become normality in instruction. Teachers still have a lot of confusion that they have a tendency to see scientific inquiry learning as "deification" and "generalization". Therefore an urgent need is to answer some basic questions of scientific inquiry in geography.One of the most critical problems and doubts is that how to design scientific inquiry learning activities of geography?Basing on a large number of literature and the investigation, the paper puts forward the design system and ideas of geographical scientific inquiry theme activities.Firstly, this paper tracked back to the source of the theory and established theory base through reviewing the history of the international scientific inquiry learning and geographical scientific inquiry learning in our country, combing through history and clarifying the context and direction of international and Chinese geographical scientific inquiry learning.(Chapter â… )This research had a status survey on China's secondary school teachers implementation geographical scientific inquiry activity using questionnaire.From the investigation, we found that the implementation of geographical scientific inquiry activity in our country still had many problems; the paper used literature study and content analysis to make a system analysis for the present research situation of geographical scientific inquiry learning in our county. What the investigation mentioned above was the realistic basis of this study.(Chapter â…¡)This paper compared the inquiry element,inquiry level,inquiry skill of231 geography scientific inquiry activities in high school textbooks between China and America by comparative research and content analysis. The study revealed three aspects of significant differences in geography scientific inquiry theme activities design between the two countries. By these comparisons, we could get a lot of reference and inspiration for the design of geography scientific inquiry theme activities in China.(Chapter â…¢)On the basis of the above, the paper believed that the current our country geography of scientific inquiry activity design should realize the transformation, that is, from broad inquiry to clear themes inquiry, from shallow level inquiry to deep level inquiry, from concerning the dominant factor such as the content and type of inquiry to hidden factors such as the inquiry element,inquiry skill,inquiry level. On this basis, the paper construct the design framework of geographical scientific inquiry theme activity, this framework mainly includes such parts as goal design, theme design, type design, characteristics design and so on.Content designed around a clear theme from three dimensions on inquiry elements,inquiry skills,inquiry level to think about the characteristics of inquiry which is the biggest difference from the previous design and is the study focus and distinguishing feature.(Chapter IV)The fifth, sixth, seventh chapter had a systematic discussion of the design of the geographical scientific inquiry theme activities, respectively from theme design, type design, characteristics thinking by the way of combining theory and case, so as to provide practical guidance for the designers.Chapter VIII of the paper presents the general steps of geographical scientific inquiry theme activities design and illustrates how to reflect the themes and highlights thinking of the characteristics of inquiry by case.Research results and the prospect section summarized the conclusions obtained in this study and mentioned the further study in the future, indicating the direction for further research.