Junior High School Geography Learning Transfer And Curriculum Reconstruction Research

It is called geography learning that the prior learning influences on the subsequent learning in junior high school geography learning.Geography learning transfer exists widely in junior high school geography teaching.The study of this paper is to help students achieve the transfer of geography learning through the reconstruction of junior high school geography curriculum.At present,the junior high school geography teaching in our country revolves around the curriculum standard and uses several versions of textbooks at the same time.In this paper,based on the current teaching materials of People's Education Press,using the principle of geographical learning transfer reconstructs the geography curriculum.It focuses on learning similar geographical knowledge in order to reduce the time required for the new teaching.Moreover,the geographical grades of students will not worsen due to heavy geography curriculum.In order to avoid students learning geography by rote leads to losing interest in learning geography.This study refers to geographical talk show programs which are popular on the Internet.It arranges the clue of geographical reconstructs.According to time sequence,it concludes lots of interesting topics of knowledge that are used to learn geography for students in the junior high school.This study hopes to complete the original learning task by reconstructing the junior high school geography curriculum and using less new teaching class.This study lists the main knowledge points in junior high school geography learning,and summarizes the “common elements” that can occur between the knowledge points of geography learning transfer.Based on the "common elements",this study focuses on the organizational material and reorganizes the geography curriculum into several special subjects.These topics include: "the rise of agricultural dispute and the Silk Road"that mainly related to the distribution of climate characteristics,Chinese topography,spatial distribution characteristics of precipitation Chinese,China distribution of land use types.The topic of "the move between the river region and the west of Turkic movement" mainly deals with the rivers of Asia,the geographical position,the scope and the national composition of the Middle East,and the distribution of islam."Osman Turkey Empire" focuses on religion in the Middle East,transportation points in the Middle East,and the distribution of islam.The theme of the "Black Death" covers the Eurasian divide,the distribution of the three major southern European Peninsula,the position of Western Europe,and the concept of per capita cultivated land area.The topic of "geographical discovery of the European people" covers the distribution of land and sea in the world,the relative position of Western Europe and the Middle East,the shape and size of the earth,and the evidence that the earth is a sphere."Global allocation of resources and industrial revolution" focuses on the theory of population growth,the growth conditions of sugarcane,and the factors that influence industrial distribution.Special migration and ethnic geography discovery,relates to the distribution of different races,characteristics of American agriculture,"gene determinism",the United States and Brazil's ethnic composition,Saharan Africa is the hometown of black people,and its reasons in a sparse population.The topic of “American expansion” concerns the location and territorial composition of the United States,its rivers,its urban distribution,its ethnic makeup,and its neighbors.The theme of "great geographical discovery and Brazil" covers the geographical location,ethnic composition,climatic features,topography,rivers and agricultural products in Brazil.The topic of "great geographical discovery and the rise ofBritain" relates to the geographical position and major countries of Western Europe.The theme of "great geographical discoveries and Russian expansion" relates to Russia's location,climate,size and neighboring countries.There are also some topics can be chosen.In this study,the reconstructed curriculum was used as a control experiment.The experiment selected Ji'nan Luokou experimental school 6 classes of grade 2015,divided into three groups.A group for the 1-4 class is as the control group which is the traditional teaching of geography curriculum;B group for the 5 class is as the experimental group,which adds the thematic content in the original geography course teaching;C group for the 6 class is as another experimental group which is geography teaching in full accordance with the reconstructed curriculum.The experimental results show that the B group added the special content in the original course,and the students got better results.Finally,it is concluded that the reconstruction of geography curriculum contributes to the realization of the transfer of geography learning and the improvement of students' scores.For the reconstruction of geography curriculum,we should combine learning with emotion and carry out the study on the basis of full reading of the textbooks.