浅谈外国教材插图的特点和功能——对美国STC初中四册科学教材插图的剖析

The distinguishing features and functions of pictures in science textbooks——Analysis of pictures in science textbooks of middle school in US

美国国家资源中心 2 0 0 0年出版的初中科学教材 ,编排了大量的插图。这些插图的内容涉及领域多 ,时间跨度长 ,空间跨度大 ,设计构思巧妙、贴切 ,插图记录的场面逼真、生动、形象、亲切。在初中科学教材中编辑这些插图 ,可以较好地体现以下五点功能 :提供学生学习科学的重要信息 ;创设学生进行科学探究活动的情境 ;符合初中学生思维、认识过程的规律 ;激发学生学习科学的兴趣 ;开拓学生的视野。

There are a lot of pictures in science textbooks organized by American National Science Resources Center in 2000. These smartly conceived insets are used to illustrate many aspects, which cover many science fields, with great span of time and space. Many of them reflect real, vivid, lovely and visualized scenes. Picture insertion insertion in secondary middle school may take five advantages: providing students important information for their learning; creating the scenarios in which students can conduct scientific inquiry; coinciding with the way of student thinking and cognition, inspiring student interesting in study science, and opening up vision field of students.