Latest ArticlesMore and more people have paid great attention to the improvement of the students' comprehensive quality with the development of the science and technology. Under the ideal conditions, museums should offer students the visual scenes of science and facilitate their acquisition of knowledge and technology skills with leisure. Museums together with schools are responsible for the well-being of the next generation, for they serve the same goal, namely, to educate students. Several ways were adapted to improve students' scientific literacy. Teachers in schools and staffs in museums together can make museum-based curriculum, provide professional training for science teachers, create worksheet based on the museum exhibitions, and improve the ways of exhibiting to facilitate class in museums.
The science and technology museums share science educational functions. This paper puts forward that the science and technology museums in China should renew their ideas of the popular science education. Meanwhile some strategies should be considered such as the integration resources, the positioning, the theme design and so on.
The visual popular science display system of the buildings of the minority people is based on the research of the typical architectures of the building of the minority people and visual technology. This system has the characteristics of three-dimensional digital display, the educational function and inverse design, providing technological support for the minority's architectures conservation and development.
On the basis of exploring school-based curriculum development based on the interaction between museum and school, this paper analyzes the basic requirements of integrating scientific and technological museums and schools, studies some examples about developing school-based curriculum with venues, such as the setting of course objectives, organ-ization of course resources, preparation of teaching materials, implementation of the course and the process of curriculum evaluation. A mode about science education and communication for the adolescents through scientific and technological museums can be established so as to promote the integration of scientific and technological museums into Chinese public education system.
Scientific exhibitions for children should focus on the children's psychological and physiological characters. This article made a survey of four typical children's science exhibitions in China. Also, it summarizes and compares the main content organization mode of children's science exhibitions.
With the urgent need of the construction of grass-roots civil society and rising-up of the citizen science culture literacy, science popularization work gradually shows its importance. Integrating the current situation of community science popularization and relevant theories, this paper focuses on the subject of community science popularization, analyzes the current situation, and puts forward the collaborative multi-subject community science popularization mode. The mode is on the basis of characteristics and advantages of community. Through the interaction of five kinds of subjects, including government, schools, enterprises and public media, and other organizations and individuals, these subjects have formed a more collaborative work situation. At the same time, this paper also discusses the key work of community science popularization under this mode to provide the reference for the development and system construction of community science popularization.
This thesis tries to put forward an ideal science education mechanism implemented by natural history museums and primary and middle schools which is suitable for the current situation in China through investigation and analyses of the ways, characteristics and problems of the integration of popular science education of natural history museums and science education of primary and middle schools in China at present. The thesis also analyses and discuss some core constituent mechanisms such as the integration mechanism, input mechanism, incentive mechanism and mutual-benefit mechanism.
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum's empirical research found that science students volunteer participated effectively in science and technology museum in the aspect of science education in terms of “education show”, “hands-brain”, “exploration” and so on.
Management of the benefit of science and technology museums will strengthen the construction of museums, reinforce the development of infrastructure and promote national popular science capacity. Based on defining management the benefit of science and technology museums, this paper makes a data analysis on current situation, and then discusses causes of the problems. Finally, countermeasures are put forward.
The museums have been featured two core functions as transmission of civilization and education. In summary, this paper argues contemporary museum as a heritage of human history and culture, a place to reproduce the development of social civilization in addition to exhibition, research, leisure, more importantly rich in historical interpretation of the whole society, education, promotion and social responsibility. The concept of museum should focus on promoting national awareness and enhance national unity; interest in science and technology education.
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