Cognition on Learning of Heredity using Fast Plants as Teaching Materials for Lower Secondary School Students

Abstract

The learning of heredity was again being taught in lower secondary school students after an interval of about ten years, a course of study that was notified in March 2008. To reexamine suitable animals and plants for learning of heredity in lower secondary schools from the teaching material side, the teaching materials that used monogenic hybrids in the past were reviewed. Fast plants (Brassica rapa) were chosen as a teaching material of the genetic experimentation, and the teaching practice was done in two lower secondary schools attached to the Fukuoka University of Education. Moreover, the student's consideration to learning of heredity was investigated before and after the lessons. As a result, consideration on which it tried to work affirmatively and positively was admitted in learning of heredity though there was recognition of a little difficulty. In addition, there was a significant difference in the desire that the students wanting a more in-depth study.