The scientific and educational reform “planted” by a seed

The science and education reform "planted" by a seed

Tens of thousands of fresh vegetable seedlings were collected by 22 brother schools. Recently, as the core school of the science popularization and education consortium in Suixian County, Hubei Province, Jingming Primary School in Shangshi Town launched the "Miao Sending Operation", setting off a science popularization craze in the county's education system.

An ordinary rural primary school has been awarded the national "Excellent School for Youth Scientific Investigation and Experience Activities" for five consecutive times. It has been awarded the "Advanced Collective for National Scientific Literacy Work" and "National Meteorological Science Education Base" by the China Association for Science and Technology. —Model Campus Weather Station”. This year, Sui County established an education consortium to promote education reform, and Jingming Primary School was awarded the title of "Core School of the Popular Science Education Consortium". Its development path should start with a pack of space seeds.

"Space Seeds" inspire scientific dreams

When you step into Jingming Primary School, a strong scientific atmosphere hits your face. On the "Century of Scientific Life" corridor, many scientific masters are awe-inspiring Respect.

In the science classroom, a slogan is particularly eye-catching: Every child is a seed that grows into a pillar of the country. Wang Jiawang, secretary of the party branch of the school, said: "It is this belief that leads us to open planting courses, open the door to popular science, and step into the palace of science."

As early as 2017, Jingming Primary School's popular science education had achieved small results. After many efforts, we received a pack of space seeds as a gift from the Hubei Association for Science and Technology. "There are six varieties of vegetables, including cucumbers, peppers, and eggplants. Each one has plump seeds. We feel like we have found a treasure." Wang Jiawang can't hide his excitement to this day.

The school has built a planting base of 1,800 square meters, where the "space guests" have settled.

Subsequently, the school opened planting courses, planted more than 200 kinds of plants, and established 22 planting clubs. Students planted, observed, and wrote diaries to compare the similarities and differences between space vegetables and ordinary vegetables, forming more than 10,000 observation diaries. , 120 popular science reports. Their persistence moved the local meteorological department, and the campus weather station they helped built was built next to the base. The children bent down to do farm work and looked up to observe the sky. "Planting weather" enriched the popular science teaching.

The school also integrates planting classes with science, art, Chinese and other subjects. Children read, draw and write seeds to inspire scientific, aerospace and innovative dreams. The school developed a seed course It was rated as one of the "Top Ten Outstanding Courses" in the National New Education, and the school's seed library has become a "Youth Science Education Base" at the city and county levels.

Five major actions to improve scientific literacy

The power of belief gathered and fermented in Jingming Primary School and evolved into a series of actions to promote science education.

The school has successively built a science laboratory, an intellectual property room, a science and technology innovation room, a seed museum, a meteorological science popularization museum, a campus science popularization weather station, and a scientific experience education practice base to carry out position building operations. "Three Rooms, Two Pavilions, One Station and One Base" is open to the public free of charge and receives more than 16,000 visitors annually.

The curriculum development action has developed four major sections: "Magic Seeds", "STEM Courses", "Intellectual Property and Innovation" and "Meteorological Exploration", and 16 quality courses for each grade, meeting the needs of 6 grades, every week 1 science lesson.

In the "Five Visits and Five Visits" science popularization campaign, students explored the steps of science, from the campus seed museum to the Suizhou Meteorological Bureau, from the campus base to the vast fields, and from the streets and communities to the corporate factories. .

Carrying out scientific investigation actions, the student work "Research on the Current Situation and Treatment of Rural Waste in Sui County" won the provincial first prize and the national third prize. The proposed rural waste "household classification, village collection, town transfer, The "County Treatment" model was adopted and promoted by the county government; during the summer, a city waste classification survey was conducted in Fuzhou, where he competed with children from both urban and rural areas and won the first prize in the national scientific survey.

Participate in the national scientific literacy improvement action. On every event day such as Arbor Day, Intellectual Property Day, and Meteorological Day, teachers and students go into streets and communities and are active online and offline. "Little hands holding big hands" help improve the scientific quality of the people.

The five major actions point to one goal – to cultivate students’ scientific interests and scientific literacy. Chen Jingde, a science counselor at Jingming Primary School, said: “Especially students in grades five and six are in the golden period of cultivating innovative thinking and must not delay.

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In the laboratory, students’ innovative works are dazzling and amazing. A handmade weather station is lifelike; when the sun shines, a solar car moves quickly; a pumped storage model combines wind, light, water, The electric energy conversion function is called "super battery" by children.

Now, three student inventions from the school have won national utility patents. Many parents praised them and said: "These little kids have become scientists." thing. ”

The Federation of Popular Science and Education spreads scientific “seeds”

A seed can grow into a towering tree; a piece of fertile soil can bloom in a variety of colors.

Over the years, Jingming Primary School has implemented an "open schooling" model and hired four external science and technology counselors to establish an expert studio. Sun Wanru, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, came specially from Beijing to give a wonderful science popularization report at the Orchid Expo Park near the school. There is also a research base established by the school.

Deeply cultivating the fertile ground for popular science, Jingming Primary School has formed a good demonstration effect. Since the beginning of this spring, science and technology associations and education departments in Hubei, Henan, Shaanxi, Guizhou and other places have invited the school. Teachers from the school give lectures, and more than 10,000 teachers and students from 32 counties and cities in 9 provinces come to observe and inspect.

With the footsteps of observation groups from all over the world, the seed spirit and seed culture here are sown everywhere like seeds, and are known as. "Seed phenomenon".

How to amplify the "seed effect"? In March this year, Suixian County established the "Sui County Science Popularization Education Consortium" with Jingming Primary School as the core to promote science popularization education resources among schools* Sharing, communicating and interacting, and making progress together. There are 18 integrated education consortiums and 9 independent education consortiums, covering the entire county.

Jingming Primary School broadened its horizons and put forward the working idea of ??"hanging up, linking horizontally and radiating down" for the science popularization and education consortium, "hanging up" the Youth Science and Technology Center of the China Association for Science and Technology, and invited science popularization experts from provinces, cities and counties to the school for guidance; " "Honglian" 4 county-level departments jointly carried out scientific investigation and experience activities of "Building Dreams through Science and Technology and Helping Double Reduction"; "radiated" 22 primary and secondary schools in the county to continuously expand the breadth, depth and height of science education.

Now, the space vegetable seedlings donated by Jingming Primary School have taken root and sprouted in the brothers’ schools. Shen Yong, director of Suixian County Education Bureau, said emotionally: “With reform and empowerment, science education will surely bloom and bear fruit in Suixian County. . ”