1986 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 1-8
In the present study, the authors designed elementary science class-works so that children might tie up with other members of a small group taking over a portion of the activities necessary for them to inquire nature. The cooperative problem-solving activities could easily lead the children to acquire the recognition of nature. The results of the cooperative activities in small groups may be summarized as. follows: (1) The children's human relations in a small group, morale, and preference for science study took a turn for the better. (2) The better the children's human relations came to be, the more they acquired the recognition of nature, i.e. knowledge-understandinqs. (3) The more betterment of the children's morale for the science class-works they showed, the more they acquired the recognition of nature, i.e. knowledge-understandings. (4) The more desirable change of the children's preference for science study they showed, the more they acquired the recognition of nature, i.e. knowledge-understandings.
