Developing natural science cognitive capacity in teaching topic “plants and animals” - grade 4 science subject

Abstract

In the 2018 general education program, the Science program contributes to the formation and development of students’ love for people and nature; scientific imagination, interest in understanding the natural world; awareness of protecting the health of oneself, family, and community; awareness of saving and protecting natural resources; sense of responsibility towards the living environment. The subject contributes to the formation and development of students’ autonomy and self-study capacity, communication and cooperation capacity, problem solving and creativity capacity. In particular, the subject contributes to the formation and development of natural science capacity in students, helping them have initial understanding of the natural world, and initially have skills in natural science awareness and research. understand the surrounding natural environment, the ability to apply knowledge to explain objects, phenomena, relationships in nature, solve simple problems in life, behave appropriately to protect health of yourself and others, protecting natural resources and the surrounding environment. To help students develop natural science cognitive capacity and aim to improve the quality of teaching the subject, the article has proposed a process to organize students to develop scientific cognitive capacity. learning nature in teaching the topic “Food and animals” in science subject grade 4; At the same time, the article also selected and designed a set of exercises to develop natural science awareness capacity for students after the lesson.