Initial & High School Geography Curriculum Connect Research

The course reform of elemental education includes two aspects:the comprehensive course appears in junior high schools,whereas individual-subject courses occupy the main part in senior high schools.Wuhan(Wuchan District),as one of the first experimental areas of the national course reform,sets up,in junior high schools,the comprehensive course—"Science" which syncretizes the content of physics,chemistry, biology and geography etc.Whereas senior high schools,as the course reform goes on, still have these courses:physics,chemistry,biology and geography etc.individually set up.Thus,the linking-up of the course of geography and the course of science becomes an important teaching problem that we must face and solve,which is so meaningful to students' studying geography,teachers' teaching geography and the formation of a better coure system.Based on the investigation on and the talking with some students and teachers in Wuhan,this paper analyzes the features of those students who study the subject of science,finds the theoretical support of the linking-up,and,through teaching practice, generalizes five strategies on the linking-up of geography and science:the linking-up strategy of the development of students' studying psychology,the linking-up strategy of the stepping-up of the "three-dimensional aims",the linking-up strategy of the order-setting of course content,the linking-up strategy of "the leading organizer",and the linking-up strategy of "epigynous study".What's more,with the guidance of these linking-up strategies,this paper offers 4 teaching designs on the linking-up of the related content in geography and science.The author hopes that this paper can offer some useful teaching reference and theoretical guidance on the effective linking-up of geography and science in senior high schools,and do good to high school students' geography study and teachers' geography teaching.This paper is divided into 5 parts:Part 1,the investigation on the geographical quality of those junior high school students who study science;Part 2,the comparative analysis of the content between the criteria of science in junior high schools and the criteria of geography in senior high school;Part 3,the major supporting theories, including the theory of systematic science,the study theory,the theory of new course reform,and the geography teaching theory;Part 4,the basic strategies on the linking-up of geography and science in senior high schools;Part 5,teaching cases on the linking-up of geography and science.At last,this paper makes a generalization on the views and gives some prediction and suggestions on those unmentioned fields.