The purposes of this research are to analyze the teaching resources of geographical fieldwork in Wuci Fishing Port, to design a curriculum based on the geographical fieldwork of Wuci Fishing Port, and to evaluate students' learning achievement when the geographical fieldwork method is incorporated into the General Geopraphy topics in senior high school.
Several General Geography topics, such as maps(including scale, direction, bearing), shore topography, soils & creatures, fishing, communication &transportation, tourism, can be incorporated into the teaching resources for Wuci Fishing Port
This research adopts a quasi-experimental research method. Eighty-three first-grade students out of two classes in Ching-Shuei senior high school participated in this research. One class was assigned to the experimental group with 20 boys and 21 girls, instructed with the geographical fieldwork method. The other class was the control group with 20 boys and 22 girls, instructed with the traditional teaching method. This research aims to investigate if there is a significant difference on their learning achievement between the above two groups. Besides, with the help of the questionnaire on the learning attitude toward the geographical fieldwork teaching method, this research investigates students' learning achievement and attitudes.
