The investigation is a study of environmental teaching in Gaumei Wetland for six graders and integrate the features of natural environment and ecological resources, and the theories of “Nature and Life Technology” to develop activities suitable for outdoor teaching in the wetland, then to design student’s learning activity manuals for the sixth graders by adopting the method of outdoor environmental interpretative education on the scene to teach students.
According to doing student’s learning activity manual and learning achievement test, the investigator can explore the learning efficiency of students when they participated in outdoor environmental teaching and learning activities, and use learning feeling questionnaires and students’ interview records to explore the opinions from students taking part in outdoor environmental learning activities. Meanwhile, the data from students’ learning outcomes, opinion feedbacks and students’ interview records were collected and conducted to be evaluated.
The main findings of this study are as follows：
1、 The environmental teaching material in Gaumei Wetland which can be exercised at elementary school is enough and suitable.
2、 The acceptance and satisfaction of students towards the teaching method via learning feeling questionnaires are high. According to the survey, more than 94% of the students like this approach.
3、 The learning achievement test of students for the learning efficiency in the wetland environment demonstrates the positive results of outdoor environmental interpretative education approach. The results of the t-test shows the improvement is significant.
4、 Through the results of the learning feeling questionnaires and students’ interview records, we can find that students like to observe in nature environment and be closed to the nature. Therefore, it can also help students construct the recognition concept of natural science and increase their life experiences.
According to the results of this study, after outdoor environmental teaching and learning activities, students can strengthen the environmental consciousness and sensitivity. It also provide teachers a chance to utilize the outdoor environmental resources to increase the efficiency of teaching. Teachers can use this teaching approach as reference material when they implement the outdoor environmental teaching and learning activities.
