三种探究形式的比较—美国探索馆探究式教育活动案例分析

A Comparison of Three Inquiry Methods-Case Study of Inquiry Teaching Activity in Exploratorium US

美国探索馆成立的"探究学院"为培训学校教师开发了系列探究式教育活动,其中的"陀螺"实验案例在设计中有效地运用了比较法,针对同一主题设计三组不同形式的活动,让参与者在依次完成几组实验之后能够通过对实验方法、观察现象、实验结果的比较,获得探究性的发现。笔者在对三组实验进行比较之后,分析得出三组实验属于三种不同形式、不同程度的探究活动,辅导老师可以根据教育对象、学习目标和学习内容的不同设计不同的形式的探究,也可以将三种形式组合起来加以使用。

Exploratorium set up the Institute for Inquiry to train teachers with self-developed educational activities. The "gyroscope"experiment, designed with effective comparison method in which Three different activities are designed for the same theme, means to let participants have inquiry-based discoveries by comparing the different methods, phenomenon and results. By comparing the Three experiments, the writer concluded that they are Three different inquiry activities with different formats and degrees. Teachers can design different inquiry teaching methods according to students, learning targets and contents. The Three activities can also be combined and utilized as a whole.