A Trial Study of the Zoo Education in Collaboration withScience Education of the Elementary School Research on Teaching Methods through Dialogical Learning

Abstract

In this study, we examine effective teaching methods of zoo education in collaboration with elementary school science education with regard to learning about the topic “life”. We continued practical research through the interactive discourse analysis of the instructor and children, both in the zoo and in a school, from a constructivist view. As a result, children’s conception of life developed through the instructor’s scaffolding through querying. Children spontaneously discovered various aspects of the zoo animals and thought about the relationship between their features and how the animals live in the wild.