Discussion On The Design Of Historical Activities Texts In High School Textbooks

Historical activity texts are set in textbooks, which is parallel to the introductory text and basic texts. This type of texts is called "inquiry activity class", "study and inquiry" or"comprehensive inquiry" in textbook, but no matter what the name is, these texts are usually composed of activity theme, activity introduction, activity purpose, activity process, activity recommendations and other basic content. The activities of the textbooks written in the high school history textbooks have the characteristics of closely related curriculum standards, rich organizational structure and strong research and study, but there are also lack of sense of the times such as the theme of the activity, large knowledge content span, lack of activity evaluation guidance, and the lack of readability of the page is not strong, which seriously affect the effectiveness of the implementation of the activities of the text.This paper consists of four parts:The first part is the introduction, mainly to define the concept of activity courses and activity texts, including their relationship, analysis the significant of writing historical activity texts.Although the historical activity texts have emerged as early as the beginning of this century and have attracted a large number of secondary school history teachers attention to it, but the fact is few people are able to study from the perspective of the textbook system currently, thus this part is also writing literature review and basic research thinking.The second part mainly introduces the basic situation of writing historical activity texts in high school textbooks. This paper summarizes the writing ideas of the active text from the three aspects of content selection, text structure and main types. On this basis, it analyzes the basic characteristics of writing historical activity texts, such as the close relationship with the curriculum standard, the rich structure of the text structure, Features.The third part mainly points out the existing problems during writing historical activity texts in current textbooks. Through the analysis and interviews of some senior high school teachers and students, here are the main four types: the text content of the times is not strong, the span of activity theme is not clear, lacking of designing activity evaluation, their layouts' readability is not strong and so inadequate.The fourth part mainly puts forward the main countermeasures to improve the writing of historical activity texts in high school. Through the results of other versions of the current history textbooks or the junior high school history textbooks, we can try the following efforts: text content,organizational structure, activities, evaluation and layout design.