高中英语研究性学习案例Unit 1 Great scientists

高中英语研究性学习案例 四川省德阳市中江中学 姓名 谢俊 填表日期 2013 12 26 案例描述 研究性学习指在教学过程中以问题为载体 创设一种类似科学 研究的情景和途径 让学生通过自己收集 分析处理信息来实际感受和体 验知识的产生过程 让学生学会学习 培养他们分析问题 解决问题的能 力和创造能力 研究性学习的核心是要改变学生的学习方式 它强调一种 主动探究式的学习方式 培养学生创新精神和实践能力 培养学生的合作 意识和团队精神 是推进素质教育的一种新的尝试 撰写案例时请注意包括以下要素和内容 1 案例题目 高中英语研究性学习案例 Unit 1 Great scientists 2 主题背景 情境描述 人物 问题发生的原因等 帮助学生了解杰出的科学家的事迹 培养学生探究科学 崇尚科学的 精神和正确的科学观 使学生懂得科学探求的步骤和方法 通过开展研究性学习活动 锻炼学生查找 搜集资料的能力 小组合 作的意识和交际能力 发现问题并解决问题的能力和创新能力 3 事件本身及问题解决的过程 详写 活动对象 高二 16 班全体同学 活动方式 上网查找 搜集资料 去图书馆查找资料 小组合作制作课件 在课 堂上展示研究成果 交流研究的心得体会 活动过程 第一阶段 课前准备 按照英语教学的需要 依据学生的学业水平 能力倾向 个性特征等方面的差异 把全 班 52 人分成 8 个学习小组 给各个小组布置不同的任务 要求各个小组的学生利用网络资源 查找有关科学家的信息资料和图片 制作幻灯片准备在课堂上呈现出来 并用英语进行介绍 各小组成员合作完成书本第一页 warming up 部分的测试题 根据 pre reading 部分的第一小 题 What do you know about infectious diseases 布置不同小组的学生利用网络资源收集相关资料和图片 指导学生利用 PowerPoint 把相 关的材料制作成课件 让学生准备用英语介绍 各个小组负责介绍一种传染病 包括 AIDS SARS BIRD FLU CHOLERA 第二阶段 小组合作 搜集整理信息阶段 第一小组整理并介绍阿基米德 Archimedes 的有关资料图片 如图一 图一 Archimedes Ancient Greek 287 212 BC a mathematician He found that if you put an object into water the water pushes the object up It rises and partly floats The force of the water pushing it up is the same as the weight of the object 第二小组整理并介绍查尔斯 达尔文 Charles Darwin 的有关资料和图片 如图二 图二 Charles Darwin Britain 1808 1882 The Origin of Species was published in 1859 It explained how plants and animals had changed over time to fit in with a changing environment At the time it was published it was very controversial Many people believed the Bible when it said that God made the first two people Adam and Eve and that all other people came from these two Darwin s book showed that people had developed from apes instead So this caused a lot of argument between religious and scientific people However Darwin s idea became very influential and is still accepted today 第三小组整理并介绍居里夫人 Marie Curie 的有关资料和图片 如图三 图三 Marie Curie Polish and French 1867 1934 She was born in Poland and came to study in France in 1891 and she lived there for the rest of her life In 1898 she discovered radium She received two Nobel prizes one with Pierre Curie for physics 1903 and one for chemistry 1911 She is the only person to have been so honored On the death of her husband she took over his job at the Sorbonne in she began a new scientific area of research She was the first woman Paris Her work on radioactivity and the discovery of radium meant that to receive a Nobel Prize and the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne 索邦神学院 巴黎大学前身 第四小组整理并介绍爱迪生 Thomas Edison 的有关资料和图片 如图四 图四 Thomas Edison American 1847 1931 He was already an inventor of other electrical devices phonograph 电唱机 electric light bulb when in 1882 he designed a system for providing New York with electricity from a central power station This was a tremendous achievement which had previously been thought impossible 第五小组整理并介绍张衡 Zhang Heng 的有关资料和图片 如图五 图五 Zhang Heng Chinese 78 139 He invented the first seismograph 测震仪 地震仪 to indicate in the direction of an earthquake It was in the shape of a cylinder 圆筒形 with eight dragonheads round the top each with a ball in its mouth Around the bottom were eight frogs directly under a dragon s head When an earthquake occurred a ball fell out of the dragon s mouth making a noise 第六小组整理并介绍史蒂芬 霍金 Stephen Hawking 的有关资料和图片 如图六 图六 Stephen Hawking British 1942 He has worked in astronomy and studied black holes in space He has shown that black holes do not only absorb everything around them but from time to time throw out matter as well This may mark the beginning of new galaxies This is an advance on the old theory which said that black holes eat everything they come across 第七小组整理并介绍 AIDS SARS 传染病的有关资料和图片 第八小组整理并介绍 BIRD FLU CHOLERA 传染病的有关资料和图片 第三阶段 课堂活动 1 学生以小组为单位进入小教师角色 各小组成员上讲台展示他们制作的 PowerPoint 课件 用英语介绍相关科学家的资料 和全班的其它小组同学分享和交流学习成果 相关小组负责 介绍 AIDS SARS BIRD FLU CHOLERA 四种传染病中的其中一种 在这过程中老师引发全班 集体讨论 How can we prevent ourselves from getting infectious diseases 在这个过程中 教师对学生进行指导和帮助 第四阶段 课堂活动 2 进入课文 John Snow Defeats King Cholera 的理解时 我采用个人研究 小组合作和 全班集体讨论相结合的办法去完成任务 在课前准备阶段我布置全班各个学习小组的成员阅读理解课文 根据阅读文章的内容回 答 14 题理解性的题目 如下所示 1 What do you know about Dr John Snow s being well known in London 2 From what disease did Londoners suffer in his age 3 Did people know how to cure the disease of cholera 4 When did Dr Snow think the disease would be controlled 5 What was the second theory explaining how the disease killed people 6 How serious was the disease outbreak in London 7 Did the map which Dr Snow draw help find the cause of the disease 8 Where were many of the deaths in Broad Street 9 Why did some houses have no deaths 10 What did Dr Snow think was responsible for the disease 11 What did Dr Snow advised the people in Broad Street do 12 What else did Dr Snow find in another part of London that were linked to the Broad Street outbreak 13 What conclusion did Dr Snow tell the public 14 What did Dr Snow tell the water companies 3 问题探究及收获 各个学习小组的学生围绕这一个共同的研究课题在课前进行学习和互 相帮助 在课堂上通过小组合作交流和进行全班集体讨论的形式 达到