인천어린이과학관의 전시 체험 활동의 내용 분석

Abstract

우리의 생활은 과학의 발달로 인해 너무나 많은 변화를 겪었으며, 지금도 그 변화는 계속되고 있다. 현대를 살고 있는 우리는 다가올 미래의 변화를 대비하고 주도하기 위해 우리의 아이들에게 다른 어떤 교과 교육보다도 과학 교과의 교육을 강화하고 있다. 인천어린이과학관은 유아와 초등학생을 대상으로 한 체험 위주의 과학관으로 전시물은 대부분 아이들이 직접 체험할 수 있도록 구성되어 있는데 그 과정이 간단하고 아이들이 몸을 사용하여 체험하도록 만들어져 있어 놀이와 학습이 동시에 일어날 수 있도록 구성된 과학관이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 인천어린과학관의 전시물을 체험하는 과정을 초등과학교육과정에서 소개하는 수업모형과 비교하여 전시물의 체험 과정에서 습득할 수 있는 탐구 기능과 학습내용을 분석하고 이를 토대로 인천어린이과학관을 방문한 아동들에게 학교과학교육에서 학습한 내용과 탐구 과정의 보충뿐만 아니라 심화를 위한 학습 자료를 제공하고자 한다. 이를 위해 전시물을 분석하고 초등 3학년을 대상으로 설문조사를 하였다. 본 연구 결과 및 결론은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 인천어린이과학관의 전시물을 전시 방법에 따른 수업모형별 비중을 살펴보면 경험학습모형과, 발견학습모형이 약60%를 차지하고 있었다. 둘째로 인천어린이과학관의 전시 내용을 학년별로 분석한 결과 3학년 이상의 과학교과의 내용과 관련되는 전시물들이 대부분이었다. 셋째로 전시물의 내용이 초등과학교육과 연관되는 부분이 많음에도 다수의 학생들이 연관되는 부분이 적다고 생각하고 과학 지식을 배우는 과정이 아닌 놀이 중심의 전시 활동임에도 불구하고 과학에 대한 흥미가 높지 않았다. 마지막으로 재방문과 추천의사를 묻는 질문에 거의 대부분의 학생들이 긍정적으로 답변한 것을 확인하였다. 따라서 인천어린과학관의 전시물을 체험하는 과정을 수업모형과 비교하여 전시물 체험 활동에서 이용할 수 있는 교수-학습 과정안을 제시함으로써 인천어린이과학관을 방문한 학생들의 전시 체험 과정의 교육적 기능 향상에 도움을 주고자 한다.| Our daily life was much changed by the scientific developments and nowadays the change has been continued. We living in modern society are enhancing the education of science subject rather than any other subject to our children for preparing and initiating to the future change. Incheon Children's Science Museum is for the child and elementary school students focus on experience and the exhibition is constructed for direct experience of the children in which the course is simple in order to use body of the children in experience to produce play and learning together at the same time. Thus, this research is examining the exploration function and learning contents achieving in experience course of exhibition compared to class model introduced in elementary science education curriculum in experiencing exhibition of Incheon Children's Science Museum, and providing learning materials for deep learning as well as contents and supplementation of exploration course in school science education for the visiting students to Incheon Children's Science Museum. For this, the analysis of exhibition was provided and questionnaire study was performed subjecting to the third grade students. The research result and conclusion is as follows. Firstly, as a result of examining specific gravity by class model according to exhibit method for the exhibition of Incheon Children's Science Museum, experience learning model and discovery learning model was occupied about 60%. Secondly, as a result of examining of exhibit content of Incheon Children's Science Museum by grade, most of the exhibition were related to the contents of science subject over the third grade. Thirdly, even though most of the contents of exhibition were related to the elementary science education, lots of students think that they were not much connected to the class. And even though the learning course of scientific knowledge was exhibition focus on play, the interest on science was not high. Lastly, it was confirmed that most of the students responded positive answers to the question about revisiting and intention to recommend. Therefore, it helps to improvement of educational function of visiting students of Incheon Children's Science Museum by suggesting learning process plan used in exhibition experience activity compared to class model with experiencing course of exhibition of Incheon Children's Science Museum.; Our daily life was much changed by the scientific developments and nowadays the change has been continued. We living in modern society are enhancing the education of science subject rather than any other subject to our children for preparing and initiating to the future change. Incheon Children's Science Museum is for the child and elementary school students focus on experience and the exhibition is constructed for direct experience of the children in which the course is simple in order to use body of the children in experience to produce play and learning together at the same time. Thus, this research is examining the exploration function and learning contents achieving in experience course of exhibition compared to class model introduced in elementary science education curriculum in experiencing exhibition of Incheon Children's Science Museum, and providing learning materials for deep learning as well as contents and supplementation of exploration course in school science education for the visiting students to Incheon Children's Science Museum. For this, the analysis of exhibition was provided and questionnaire study was performed subjecting to the third grade students. The research result and conclusion is as follows. Firstly, as a result of examining specific gravity by class model according to exhibit method for the exhibition of Incheon Children's Science Museum, experience learning model and discovery learning model was occupied about 60%. Secondly, as a result of examining of exhibit content of Incheon Children's Science Museum by grade, most of the exhibition were related to the contents of science subject over the third grade. Thirdly, even though most of the contents of exhibition were related to the elementary science education, lots of students think that they were not much connected to the class. And even though the learning course of scientific knowledge was exhibition focus on play, the interest on science was not high. Lastly, it was confirmed that most of the students responded positive answers to the question about revisiting and intention to recommend. Therefore, it helps to improvement of educational function of visiting students of Incheon Children's Science Museum by suggesting learning process plan used in exhibition experience activity compared to class model with experiencing course of exhibition of Incheon Children's Science Museum.