China Education Daily-China Education News Network News (Reporter Zhang Xin) "The foundation of science education is experiments, and the most important thing in the cultivation of students' scientific literacy is to stimulate students' interest in science and cultivate their practical ability." "At this year's National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, Pei Hongxia, deputy to the National People's Congress and secretary of the Party General Branch of Hebei Shijiazhuang Foreign Chinese School, made suggestions on how to carry out science education.
Pei Hongxia found that at present, there are problems in science education in primary and secondary schools, such as separating teaching from experiments, and talking too much and doing too little. In some schools, daily teaching is in the classroom, and the experimental class is in the laboratory; In some schools, "knowledge is concentrated and experiments are concentrated". She noticed that in China's primary and secondary schools, teaching buildings and laboratory buildings are generally built separately, science teachers teach knowledge, and experimenters are responsible for students' experiments, so it is difficult to realize the integration of teaching and experiments.
Pei Hongxia suggested that first, to improve the quality of science education in primary and secondary schools, we should start from the integration of teaching and experiments. For example, the original laboratory was changed into a professional classroom for physical and chemical biology to realize the integration of physical and chemical biology teaching and experiments. Second, it is necessary to increase the proportion of experimental teaching in science courses. Especially in the compulsory education stage, experimental teaching can stimulate students' curiosity, imagination and desire, and cultivate students' scientific interest and scientific thinking from an early age. Third, it is necessary to increase the experimental examination in the examination evaluation. For example, the proportion of experimental ability should be appropriately increased in the test proposition, so as to avoid students from emphasizing knowledge and ignoring experiments, and relying solely on rote memorization and mechanical brushing to improve test scores.
Author: Zhang Xin.