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  • Nannan Wang, Jiangang Sun
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2012, 7(Z2): 28-34.

    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.

  • Hongtao Zhao, Lei Liu, Li Ma, Qingjin Meng
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2012, 7(Z2): 35-40.

    More 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.

  • Ge Xin, Ying Shen, Qiang Zhang, Xian Song, Weihao Wu, Zhaozheng Liang
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2012, 7(Z2): 41-48.

    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.

  • Zhaochun Hong
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2012, 7(Z2): 49-56.

    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.

  • Yan Qian, Juan Chang
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2012, 7(Z2): 57-63.

    In recent years, along with the increasing number of science venues, their educational function has been paid much more attention. From the view of the school education, a new round of curriculum reform of education started in 2001. This reform stressed using the equipment and facilities in science and technology museums. This paper discussed the concept and function of worksheet, and tried to create a input-process-output (IPO) theory model, expecting to provide a reference for the related aspects.

  • Juan Chang, Ning Ma
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2012, 7(Z2): 64-68.

    Worksheet is a self learning educational material that can enable teachers to guide students and parents. Exhibits are the main educational resources in science and technology museums. Science and technology museums design worksheet to make it become a learning tool. This paper relied on a research program me held by China Association for Science and Technology in 2010, and some thoughts are summarized.

  • Shijin Huang
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2012, 7(Z2): 69-75.

    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.

  • Kui Li, Rong Chen, Deyan Luo, Jian Liu, Yimin Li
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2012, 7(Z2): 76-83.

    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.

  • Xiande Qi, Feng Ma
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2012, 7(Z2): 84-89.

    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.

  • Shukun Tang, Jiangyan You, Quan Zhou
    Studies on Science Popularization. 2012, 7(Z2): 90-96.

    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.