Latest ArticlesThe Undergraduates of China was not included in the important colony's queue of Outline of National Action Scheme of Scientific Literacy for All Chinese Citizens. This phenomenon shows that the related departments don't recognize enough the function of "the undergraduates' colony", who can improve the standard of science literacy of whole Chinese. The theoretical and practical researches on the science literacy of undergraduates lack firm foundation of scientific view. The system and content of science education are still very disordered. We should strengthen comprehensive science education for the current undergraduates against the traditional education methods, the disadvantage of which is emphasizing too much on specialized subject but overlooking comprehensive ability. Such method is named as "high-level science popularization". By studying the mature science literacy theories and advanced experiences of other countries, and summarizing our country's cultural literacy education practice in these years, we establish reasonable undergraduates' science-literacy evaluation system and comprehensive science-literacy training system.
Based on the investigation of the Science Popularization Websites (SPWs) in China, which was hold in the early 2005, 233 SPWs were collected. There were six types of SPWs. The comprehensive SPWs located mainly in Beijing. The professional SPWs were mainly distributed in Beijing and Shanghai. The top two Local SPWs were from Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces. The other types of SPWs located mainly in Beijing. The general distribution of most SPWs in China has the character of "one center (Beijing) and one belt (coastal zone)" and "decline along the inland regions". SPWs in were related to many disciplines and played an important role in the improvement of public science awareness and knowledge. There were some problems with the SPWs in China, such as simple contents, poor display forms, and lack of two-ways flow of messages. In the future, SPWs in China should be carried out under the rational plan on the national scope and strengthen the popularization of scientific spirits, methods and thinkings.
Science literacy is an important part of public literacy, and increasing the minors' interests on science and their creative abilities is a keystone for the work of science popularization. As we know, children like cartoons very much, so it is a much more effectively way to enlighten them to be interested in science. At the same time, animation industry can bring on the fast economic improvement.
Observation is one of the most fundamental and important scientific inquiry skills. This paper describes the following ways to improve primary scholar's observation ability in teaching. 1. inspire the desire of observation; 2. define the purpose of observation; 3. teach students observation methods; 4. teach students in field observation; 5. modify results in cooperation; 6. learn the preliminary processing of observation results; 7. train students for the improvement of their attitude towards science.
Beijing Planetarium is the first large-scale venue for popular science activities in new China, which was founded on September 29, 1957. On the eve of its 50 anniversary, with the interview of Mr. Li Yuan, who was in charge of the construction of the Planetarium, this article elaborates the detailed history of its construction.
Some thoughts are expressed in this paper about science and technology museums that include the development status, construction components, exhibition and education approaches, the social mission, management system and program planning.
Science museums and science centers have undergone great change over the past century. With few exceptions, there has been a pronounced shift during this period from collections and research towards education. The development of the function, especially the educational function of the science museum in USA, which indicates: 1. Science museum should be treated as the infrastructure construction for scientific education; 2. To strengthen the development of the educational function of the science museum; 3. The informal education in the science museum can be treated as the reference for educational reform in the school.
With the development road of science and technology museums as a clue, the paper analyzes the inner relationship of the displays in science and technology museums and their rule of mutual influence in order to discover their development tendency and their innovation directions while giving a definition of the display and taking a look back at its history, through discussing the evolvement of the display modes and their applied characteristics, by elaborating on the changes of the display contents and their different stages of development.
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