Developing Global Awareness and Twenty-First Century Skills Using PBL on Ocean Pollution

• 作者: Qing Gao Rebecca L.Hite
• 来源期刊: 美中教育评论:A
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: 21st century SKILLS environmental science GLOBAL collaboration OCEAN POLLUTION PROJECT-BASED learning
• 年，卷（期）: mzjypl-a_2018,（8）
• 页码范围: 341-351
• 页数: 11页
• 分类号: G4

摘要

This paper discusses a global collaboration on ocean pollution between two science classrooms:One is in the Southeastern China and the other is in the Southwestern United States(US).The primary goal of this project-based learning(PBL)collaboration was for students to explore the content-related concepts of ocean pollution and to conduct research on oceanic water quality when polluted with trash.The project was designed to provide participants a cross-cultural environment for understanding a diffuse global environmental issue by developing students’global learning(i.e.,global awareness and global competencies)and sustainability.Students reported they valued global collaboration and gained skills of critical thinking,and teachers reported that language and technology were premier tools for global collaboration which provide students an opportunity to get a sense of worldwide ecological community.This collaboration provides insight to how cross-cultural PBL experiences may be a successful strategy for promoting high school students’awareness and consequences of global environmental issues.