The concept of scaffolding has captured a great deal of attention in science education research over the past few decades. Many studies have testified the effectiveness of scaffolding in science education. Based on the classification of scaffolding strategies synthesized by J.van de Pol, this study analyzes ten teaching videos of early science education, while the appearances and characteristics of scaffolding are summarized. Based on those findings, some suggestions for future development of early science teaching in preschool are put forward.

Media studies is one of the important content for science communication. Farming and Weaving Picture is a special form of art which is used to spread agricultural technology and culture in traditional Chinese society. In the process of Chinese society's transformation from traditional to modern times, the printing media of Farming and Weaving Picture changed from xylograph to lithography. By analyzing different transmission modes of Farming and Weaving Picture and exploring its changes of print media, it is found that although lithography has increased the reproduction and transmission of Farming and Weaving Picture to a certain extent, science communication mode of traditional Farming and Weaving Picture is interrupted. This phenomenon shows that there is no direct relationship between media and science communication. It is necessary to follow rules in other areas when science communication attempts to cooperate with other areas.

This paper discusses the use of new-year-pictures in rural science popularization, and also discusses how to enhance the use of images in rural science popularization at present. The images have powerful functions in science popularization, especially in conveying the beauty of science, and raising the public's scientific temper. Currently, China is massively building the beautiful countryside. Beautiful countryside is not only about a beautiful landscape, but also about a kind of developing beauty and humanistic beauty. Science, being as the motive force of development or the core of humanistic spirit, is the basic factor of beautiful countryside. The beauty of the countryside is inseparable from the beauty of science, and popular science images are an important medium to show the beauty of science and foster scientific life.

The construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, which creates new historical opportunities for the development of science popularization industry in China. The paper holds that under the new historical environment, the development trend of science popularization industry in China is gradually emerging, which is mainly reflected in related theory research, practice exploration, policy system construction and the process its internationalization. The paper also proposes and analyzes the specific development trend. It is hoped that the afore-mentioned analysis and research will arouse the attention and research of peers, relevant decision-making departments and institutions on the development of science popularization industry to further promote the high quality, high efficiency and healthy development of science popularization industry, which will provide some reference for decision-making in this regard.

Environmental education has been concerned as a powerful instrument for promoting nature conservation and sustainable development, and an important method to improve environmental literacy and pre-environmental behaviour of the general public. However, the mechanism of the effect of environmental education on pre-environmental behaviour remains unclear. Thus, this research conducted a six-month survey for teenagers who participated in wetland education courses. What was followed was that the paper analyzed the characteristics of teenagers' pre-environmental behavior, the impact path of environmental education on pre-environmental behaviour, and the time course of teenagers' environment knowledge, environment value, environment attitude, and pre-environmental behaviour. The results revealed that (1) pre-environmental behavior of teenagers showed significant differences in terms of age, leave of education, parents' careers, and the relevance of parents' career with environment; (2) environment education imposed positive and direct impacts on teenagers' pre-environmental behaviour, and environment value and environment attitude also had a mediating effect on teenagers' pre-environmental behaviour; and (3) pre-environmental behaviour can be formed step by step. Therefore, it is suggested that environmental education for teenagers should be arranged as early as possible and parents should also be inspired to get involved. Progressive and long-term environmental education for teenagers is expected to have better outcomes.

The continuous development of science education research is a necessary way to improve students' scientific literacy. On this basis, understanding the current situation and development trend of empirical studies plays an important role in the development of science education. The study constructs the analysis framework in four dimensions‘objective’, ‘evidence’, ‘conclusion’ and‘practical’, and summarizes the present situation of empirical study on science education both in quantity and quality dimensions through a systematic analysis of the empirical studies on the theme of conceptual change. The results show that the traits of the empirical studies are generally unfolded in the 2 aspects: (a) the improvement of attention and stability of quality under the longitudinal dimensions; (b) the imbalance between different horizontal dimensions. The analysis of the current situation and development trend will provide effective suggestions for promoting the empirical study of science education and provide some inspiration for the future development of science education in China.

Green WeChat Official Account is an important representative of social media on environmental communication. The text representation, discourse construction and communication mode of 100 000+ articles can concretely show the utility and construction of environmental communication. Framework and discourse studies demonstrate that the characteristics of green text are relevance, proximity and usability. Convenient aggregation, practical information, clear views and emotion are the important efficient ways of Green WeChat Official Account. It is more realistic to build “green public discourse space” than “green public sphere” in a social media. There is still a lack of scientific discourse, constructive ideas and green culture, which needs to be improved from information dissemination to value dissemination. It is an important way to establish a systematic modern green discourse system and guarantee the supply of value for “green public discourse space”.

As a fundamental national monitoring and evaluation investigation, Chinese civic scientific literacy survey has been in place for over 20 years. The paper gives a description and analysis of the general situation and main results of Chinese civic scientific literacy, the distribution of the civic scientific literacy in each provincial unit, public interest, information sources and involvement in Science and Technology (S&T), and public attitudes about S&T in general and specific S&T related issues. The survey provides the basic data and reference for the mid-term evaluation of the13th Five-Year Plan Citizens' Scientific Literacy Construction and related research fields.

With an attempt to make a statistics and analysis of Science Popularization books published in 2015 from the number of the books published, disciplines distribution, translation, series number, pricing, page, publication and press, the author and the translator, total sales number and ranking, total sales amount, and ranking, the aim of the research is to have a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the publishing and sales of science books in China. In recent years, the development of Science popularization books in China is encouraging, whereas, the old problems are still lingering on. On one hand, the type and quantity of printing are rising steadily, and the online sales are increasing rapidly. On the other hand, the old problems such as the repetition of topics, the single expression, the low number and sales of single books, and the gap between the average level of original books and the imported books still restrict the development of Science Popularization books.

By using the method of literature analysis, this paper systematically reviewed the relevant research literature of science popularization industry at home and abroad. According to different themes, the main viewpoints are classified into the definition of science popularization industry, the relationship between science popularization industry and science popularization, the classification and main forms of science popularization industry, the drivers and demands for the development of science popularization industry, the situation and existing problems facing science popularization industry development, as well as countermeasures and policy suggestions for promoting the development of science popularization industry. On this basis, the future research topics and prospects are put forward, and hoping to be helpful to the follow-up research.