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Children’ s ideas about the rainforests and the implication for course design A)Adults and children are frequently confronted wi
Children’ s ideas about the rainforests and the implication for course design A)Adults and children are frequently confronted wi
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2014-11-27
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Children’ s ideas about the rainforests and the implication for course design
A)Adults and children are frequently confronted with statements about the alarming rate of loss of tropical rainforests. For example, one graphic illustration to which children might readily relate is the estimate that rainforests are being destroyed at a rate equivalent to one thousand football fields every forty minutes—about the duration of a normal classroom period. In the face of the frequent and often vivid media coverage, it is likely that children will have formed ideas about rainforests—what and where they are, why they are important, what endangers them—independent of any formal tuition. It is also possible that some of these ideas will be mistaken.
B)Many studies have shown that children harbour misconceptions about ’pure’, curriculum science. These misconceptions do not remain isolated but become incorporated into a multifaceted, but organized, conceptual framework, making it and the component ideas, some of which are erroneous, more robust but also accessible to modification.
C)These ideas may be developed by children absorbing ideas through the popular media. Sometimes this information may be erroneous. It seems schools may not be providing an opportunity for children to re-express their ideas and so have them tested and refined by teachers and their peers.
D)Despite the extensive coverage in the popular media of the destruction of rainforests, little formal information is available about children’ s ideas in this area, the aim of the present study is to start to provide such information, to help teachers design their educational strategies to build upon correct ideas and to displace misconceptions and to plan programs in environmental studies in their schools.
E)The study surveys children’s scientific knowledge and attitudes to rainforests. Secondary school children were asked to complete a questionnaire containing five open-form questions. The most frequent responses to the first question were descriptions which are self-evident from the term "rainforest". Some children described them as damp, wet or hot.
F)The second question concerned the geographical location of rainforests. The commonest responses were continents or countries: Africa(given by 43% of children), South America(30%), Brazil(25%). Some children also gave more general locations, such as being near the Equator.
G)Responses to question three concerned the importance of rainforests. The dominant idea, raised by 64% of the pupils, was that rainforests provide animals with habitats. Fewer students responded that rainforests provide plant habitats, and even fewer mentioned the indigenous populations of rainforests. More girls(70%)than boys(60%)raised the idea of rainforest as animal habitats.
H)Similarly, but at a lower level, more girls(13%)than boys(5%)said that rainforests provided human habitats. These observations are generally consistent with our previous studied of pupils’ views about the use and conservation of rainforests, in which girls were shown to be more sympathetic to animals and expressed views which seem to place an intrinsic value on non-human animal life.
I)The fourth question concerned the causes of the destruction of rainforests. Perhaps encouragingly, more than half of the pupil(59%)identified that it is human activities which are destroying rainforests, some personalizing the responsibility by the use of terms such as "we are". About 18% of the pupils referred specifically to logging activity.
J)One misconception, expressed by some 10% of the pupils, was that acid rain is responsible for rainforest destruction; a similar proportion said that pollution is destroying rainforests. Here, children are confusing rainforest destruction with damage to the forests of Western Europe by these factors. While two fifths of the students provided the information that the rainforests provide oxygen, in some cases this response also embraced the misconception that rainforest destruction would reduce atmospheric oxygen, making the atmosphere incompatible with human life on Earth.
K)In answer to the final question about the importance of rainforest conservation, the majority of children simply said that we need rainforests to survive. Only a few of the pupils(6%)mentioned that rainforest destruction may contribute to global warming. This is surprising considering the high level of media coverage on this issue. Some children expressed the idea that the conservation of rainforests is not important.
L)The results of this study suggest that certain ideas predominate in the thinking of children about rainforests. Pupils’ responses indicate some misconceptions in basic scientific knowledge of rainforests’ ecosystems such as their ideas about rainforests as habitats for animals, plants and humans and the relationship between climatic change and destruction of rainforests.
M)Pupils did not volunteer ideas that suggested that they appreciated the complexity of causes of rainforest destruction. In other words, they gave no indication of an appreciation of either the rage of ways in which rainforests are important or the complex social, economic and political factors which drive the activities which are destroying the rainforests.
N)One encouragement is that the results of similar studies about other environmental issues suggest that older children seem to acquire the ability to appreciate value and evaluate conflicting views. Environmental education offers an arena in which these skills can be developed, which is essential for these children as future decision-makers.
From students’ responses, some misconceptions about rainforests’ ecosystems are shown such as habitats and relationship between global warming and rainforests.
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L
解析
此句意为“从学生的反应中可看出,大家对雨林生态系统存在误解,比如栖息地和全球变暖与雨林之间的关系等”,与文章L段第二句意思相符。rainforests’ecosystems为关键词。因此,正确答案是L。
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